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Pale Rider
An exciting story about a mysterious and a seasoned preacher. The story begins when the landlord tried to block a gold mining camp in California's foothills in order to intimidate a large group of miners to abandon their land. The mysterious preacher went to the camp using all his powers in an attempt to persuade the landlord to abandon his attacks against innocent miners.
29 November 1916, Los Angeles, California, USA
7 August 1971, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
22 April 1932, Oakland, California, USA
10 October 1965, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 October 1958
July 14, 2005
Not Clint's best western, but entertaining enough.May 20, 2003
I'm just now beginning to realize that, though Mr. Eastwood may have been improving over the years, it's also taken all these years for most of us to recognize his very consistent grace and wit as a filmmaker.February 09, 2006
It's good to be back in the saddle again.June 20, 2007
Eastwood's mythic Western divided film critics: Some were baffled by the audacity of his playing a religious figure, while others claimed he was just embodying the mysterious knight-stranger, a common character in classic Westerns.September 01, 2008
...who else would you want coming to your rescue than the Preacher Man With No Name?September 12, 2008
His saddle bag is a mixed one, though Pale Rider still has the touch of quality associated with latter-day Eastwood. [Blu-ray]October 26, 2008
Pale Rider does nothing to disprove the wisdom that this genre is best left to the revival houses. A double feature of Shane and Eastwood's High Plains Drifter will do just fine, thanks.May 16, 2008
It's a lightweight, easygoing affair, reminiscent of some of Hawks' or Ford's lesser Westerns.October 26, 2008
It's all been seen before, but Eastwood serves it up with authority, fine craftsmanship and a frequent sense of fun.October 23, 2004
[Eastwood] understands so well how he works on the screen that the movie has a resonance that probably was not even there in the screenplay.May 27, 2011
Though the metaphysical overtones of the screenplay are sometimes awkwardly handled and Eastwood's direction of actors (other than himself) is occasionally uncertain, this was one of the better American films of 1985.October 26, 2008
It had been so long since a quality western had hit America's screens that it appears as if Eastwood purposely set out to remind audiences of all the elements that make the genre work.