Pale Rider
Pale Rider movie poster
Directed by	Clint Eastwood
Produced by	Clint Eastwood
Written by	Michael Butler Dennis Shryack
Starring	Clint Eastwood Michael Moriarty Carrie Snodgress
Music by	Lennie Niehaus
Cinematography	Bruce Surtees
Editing by	Joel Cox
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	1985
Running time	116 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
IMDb profile

Pale Rider is a 1985 Western film, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. This movie has plot similarities to the classic Western Shane, including a final scene that is very similar to the famous final scene of the earlier movie. There are also similarities to Eastwood's previous Man with No Name character, and his 1973 western High Plains Drifter. The title is a reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as the rider of a pale horse is Death. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (487x755, 74 KB) This image is of a movie poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the movie or the studio which produced the movie in question. ... Clint Eastwood (born Clinton Eastwood, Jr. ... Clint Eastwood (born Clinton Eastwood, Jr. ... Micheal Butler is a musician and podcaster from San Fransisco, California. ... Clint Eastwood (born Clinton Eastwood, Jr. ... Michael Moriarty (born April 5, 1941) is a Tony-winning and Emmy-winning American actor. ... Carrie Snodgress (October 27, 1946 - April 1, 2004, Los Angeles, California) was an American actress. ... Lennie Niehaus is an American alto saxophonist, arranger, and composer. ... Warner Bros. ... Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ... // Back to the Future, starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson Rambo: First Blood Part II, starring Sylvester Stallone Rocky IV, starring Sylvester Stallone The Color Purple, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery, Rae Dawn Chong, Adolph Caesar Out of Africa, starring Meryl Streep and... Justus D. Barnes, from The Great Train Robbery The Western is one of the classic American literary and film genres. ... Clint Eastwood (born Clinton Eastwood, Jr. ... Shane is a 1953 western film made by Paramount Pictures. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... High Plains Drifter is a 1973 Western film starring and directed by Clint Eastwood, wherein he plays a character clearly influenced by the Man with No Name from Sergio Leones A Fistful of Dollars and its sequels. ... Four horsemen redirects here. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Pale Rider was primarily filmed in the Boulder Mountains and the Sawtooth National Recreation Area in Idaho, just north of Sun Valley in late 1984. The opening scenes featuring the jagged Sawtooth Mountains were shot outside of Stanley. Sawtooth National Forest is located in the U.S. states of Idaho and Utah. ... Official language(s) English [1] Capital Boise Largest city Boise Largest metro area Boise metropolitan area Area  Ranked 14th  - Total 83,642 sq mi (216,632 km²)  - Width 305 miles (491 km)  - Length 479 miles (771 km)  - % water 0. ... Sun Valley is an affluent resort community in Blaine County, Idaho, USA, adjacent to the city of Ketchum. ... This article is about the year. ... Stanley is a city located in Custer County, Idaho. ...

The film also features Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Christopher Penn, Richard Dysart, Sydney Penny, Richard Kiel, Doug McGrath and John Russell. Michael Moriarty (born April 5, 1941) is a Tony-winning and Emmy-winning American actor. ... Carrie Snodgress (October 27, 1946 - April 1, 2004, Los Angeles, California) was an American actress. ... Christopher Shannon Penn (October 10, 1965 – January 24, 2006) was an American film actor. ... Richard Dysart (b. ... Sydney Penny (born August 7, 1971 in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American Daytime Emmy nominated actress best known for the roles of Julia Santos Keefer on the soap opera All My Children and Samantha Sam Kelly on the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. ... Richard Kiel as Jaws Richard Kiel on May 14, 2006 Richard Dawson Kiel (born September 13, 1939, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American actor best known for his role as Jaws in the James Bond movies The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker and his considerable height. ... John Russell (January 3, 1921 – January 19, 1991) was an American actor most noted for playing Marshal Dan Troop in the western television series Lawman from 1958 to 1962. ...

Pale Rider is the only Eastwood film to have clear religious overtones throughout.

Plot

The plot centers on a conflict between a group of simple poor miners and the most powerful man in the nearby town. A drifter (Clint Eastwood) rides in and defends a miner from a gang of ruffians with unexpected skill wielding a hickory axe handle, then compounds this surprise by wearing a minister's attire when invited to dinner. The preacher behaves reasonably enough in the beginning of the story, but eventually does spend a few hours with the future wife of one of the miners, and finally shows his true ability as a gunfighter in the end by eliminating a crack group of guns-for-hire posing as deputies who stand in the miners' way. The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam. ... Preacher is a term the for someone who preaches sermons or gives homilies. ... Categories: Stock characters | Stub ...

Religious overtones

In Pale Rider, Clint Eastwood has revealed that his character "is an out and out ghost," in an audio interview that can be found at his homepage[1]. All one needs to do is select from his filmography and then listen to his comments by clicking the audio link. The idea that the Preacher is a supernatural being is suggested early in the film when he is shown with six bullet wounds on his back—wounds that a mortal could not survive. Furthermore, the character arrives riding a pale horse at the same moment that a teenage girl—who had earlier asked help from God—reads from the Bible in Revelation of the fourth horseman of the Apocalypse, Death riding on a pale horse. Look up Apocalypse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Also, when LaHood describes the Preacher to Marshall Stockburn, the Marshall says the man sounds familiar, except that the man he's thinking of is already dead.

It is important to note that the Preacher does not say Grace properly and does not volunteer to preside at the funeral of the miner killed by Stockburn. This is in addition to other "un preacherly" behaviours.

Trivia

• One of the pieces of music featured on the soundtrack is "Best Endeavours" by Alan Hawkshaw. The piece is better known in the UK as the theme to the Channel 4 News.
• The movie is nearly a step-by-step Shane homage. A stranger (Shane/The Preacher) arrives in a town and is hosted by a local (Joe Starrett/Hull Barret), his wife (Marian/Sarah) and their child (Bob/Megan). The stranger and the local bond when they take on an "impossible task" together (undermining a root/cracking a boulder). But the local's land and his friends' is in peril by a greedy businessman (Fletcher/LaHood). The stranger fends off an initial advance and gains one of the businessman's henchmen (Chris/Club). The local's child falls for the stranger, but is rejected at first. The stranger is made relive his past when the businessman calls for an assassin (Stark Wilson/Stockburn) and one of the local's friends is killed. The stranger handles the assassin on his own in a final duel where both assassin and businessman are killed. He then leaves, and the child runs after him and cries out tearfully "I love you".

External link

• Pale Rider at the Internet Movie Database