High Plains Drifter

A mysterious, unnamed stranger rides out of the heat mirage of the desert into the isolated mining town of Lago in the American Old West. Three gunmen hired to protect the town taunt and threaten him; he kills them with little effort. When the attractive, blonde woman Callie Travers flirtatiously insults him, he rapes her in the livery stable while the townspeople do nothing. That night, in his hotel room, the Stranger dreams of Jim Duncan, a U.S. Marshal, being whipped to death by outlaws Stacey Bridges and brothers Dan and Cole Carlin, as Lago's citizens watch in silence.