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Pale Rider (Widescreen/Full Screen) | 
| Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Chris Penn, Richard A. Dysart
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 5160
Format: Ntsc, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 2
Picture Format: Array
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD11475D
ISBN: 6304698682
UPC: 085391147527
EAN: 9780790733050
ASIN: 6304698682
Theatrical Release Date: June 28, 1985
Release Date: November 18, 1997
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After a nine-year break from the genre that made him an international star (the Western just before this one was iThe Outlaw Josey Wales/i, from 1976), Clint Eastwood returned in this gritty Western, crafted in the tradition of iShane/i and iHigh Noon/i. Eastwood directed and stars as the nameless stranger known only as "Preacher" because he rides into a beleaguered mining town wearing a clerical collar. He's either an agent of death or an angel of mercy, and the echoes of iShane/I ring loud and clear when he comes to the aid of independent miners who are being terrorized by a local tycoon (Richard Dysart) and his ruthless band of hired guns. Befriended by a miner (Michael Moriarty) and idolized by the miner's wife and daughter (played by Carrie Snodgress and Sydney Penny, respectively), the "Pale Rider" sparks the defiant spirit of the underdog miners and takes after the bad guys with single-minded purpose. i--Jeff Shannon/i
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After a nine-year break from the genre that made him an international star (the Western just before this one was iThe Outlaw Josey Wales/i, from 1976), Clint Eastwood returned in this gritty Western, crafted in the tradition of iShane/i and iHigh Noon/i. Eastwood directed and stars as the nameless stranger known only as "Preacher," because he rides into a beleaguered mining town wearing a clerical collar. He's either an agent of death or an angel of mercy, and the echoes of iShane/I ring loud and clear when he comes to the aid of independent miners who are being terrorized by a local tycoon (Richard Dysart) and his ruthless band of hired guns. Befriended by a miner (Michael Moriarty) and idolized by the miner's wife and daughter (played by Carrie Snodgress and Sydney Penny, respectively), the "Pale Rider" sparks the defiant spirit of the underdog miners and takes after the bad guys with single-minded purpose. Digital video disc offers standard and widescreen formats and a remastered soundtrack. i--Jeff Shannon/i
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 an homage to clint westerns July 16, 2004
brainwhistle (Westlake Village, CA United States)
yes the story is similar to shane (although the preacher wasbr(likely) dead before the film starts, compared to shane whobrwas (likely) dead as the film ends)pbut if anything this was more like a retrospective of clint'sbrwestern characters, with a hint of Dirty Harry thrown in brfor good measurepthe parallel with High Plains Drifter is obvious; the endingbrwhere LaHood gets shot is straight out of Joe Kidd. the characterbrof the preacher is a pastiche of the man-with-no-name; the way pthe last deputy is dispatched looks like a scene from Hang 'Em brHigh (and after all, by then he had fired 6 shots -- or was it bronly 5?)
High Non redux October 5, 2003
Peggy Vincent (Oakland, CA)
Clint Eastwood appears - looms - in this gritty Western in the cowboy tradition of High Noon and Shane. Eastwood also directed Pale Rider, a movie in which he's known only as Preacher, because when he appears in town, he's wearing a clerical collar. Hard for the beleaguered miners (who are being terrorized by a smarmy land-grabbing tycoon and his band of local baddies) to figure out at first is whether Eastwood is a good guy or a bad guy. There's the requisite pretty woman and adoring child who belong to one of the miners, and it gives Eastwood to prove his intensions are high-minded.brClassic Eastwood, classic cowboy, classic classic.
 Decent Eastwood Western is hurt in comparison to Shane September 30, 2003
Jamie Cooper (Corvallis, WA)
Pale Rider is worth watching, but unfortunately, it draws too heavily on George Stevens's classic western Shane, which just might be the greatest western ever made. It is well-acted and nicely shot, but it really can't hold a candle to Shane.pThree stars.
Better than Unforgiven!!! July 31, 2003
Michael Pettinato (U.S.A.)
This Clint Eastwood western got little attention in 1985, but it still holds up well today, with Eastwood playing the man with no name mantra, it starts out with many outlaw cowboys terrorizing mountain settlers who they are trying to run off because of possible gold that could be there, we discover that the town's owner wants the mining expedition all to his self will do anything to acquire it, this is where Eastwood comes in, in which he helps the settlers keep what is theirs, with Michael Moriarty(Law Order) as the settler's leader Sydney Penny(T.V.'s All my Children) as his stepdaughter who developes a fixation on Eastwood, we learn he is a priest or so we think who has sort of a mysterious past not much is known about him, when the town's owner realizes they have outside help, he attempts to bribe him to join his cause, when that fails he then hires a ruthless sherriff his 6 deputies who uphold whatever law there is to the highest bidder, a sherriff which Eastwood has a past with, but not much is revealed about their past, in which they have a showdown towards the end, this movie has many subplots in it that really work the look on the shrriff's face when he realizes who he is up against is creepy, I am not sure if Eastwood was trying to make a sequel to Outlaw of Josey Whales or what, but it sure plays on that theme as if the sherriff was one he missed in that one, or vice versa, is better than Unforgiven which in some ways could be a sequel to this one, but this one stands out could be a stand alone movie, it should be noted that Eastwood directed all 3 films, might have had that intension all along, I used to like Josey Whales the best, but this one is the better one I think!!!
...and it's rider's name was death June 25, 2003
Robert Morris (Dallas, Texas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The situation is familiar enough, previously dramatized in another film, Shane (1953): A stranger appears and becomes involved with good people who are being tormented by a powerful adversary as they struggle to eke out a living as miners camped along a river. Eastwood has duly acknowledged several similarities with Shane while explaining that he wanted to create his own version and commissioned a script based on that basic situation. As for the film's title, as she was reading the Bible with her mother (a widow, played by Carrie Snodgrass), Megan Wheeler (played by Sydney Penny), comes upon this passage: "And I saw, and behold, a pale horse, and its rider's name was death, and hell followed him. Soon after, a lone horseman (Clint Eastwood) dressed as a preacher, rides into camp. His name is never revealed, nor is his background, but the miners soon realize that the Preacher is probably much handier with a gun than he is with holy scripture. Of course, the confrontation with LaHood and his hired gunmen (led by a man named Stockburn) is inevitable. There is a vague but inescapable implication that the Preacher may have once ridden with Stockburn. There is no doubt that they once knew each other. pTo his credit, Eastwood underplays any Biblical implications. In fact, most of the action occurs slowly. Opportunities to develop a sub plot are rejected, probably because Eastwood wants to sustain the focus on the conflict between decency and mendacity. Although the widow is obviously "taken" with the Preacher and he feels at least some attraction to her (as was also the case with Shane and Marion Starret), the Preacher rides off as the film ends, as does Shane. Hull Barret is Joe Starret's counterpart. Both are willing but neither is equal to the challenge of saving their friends from oppression. Shane and the Preacher become involved because they care about the good folks, of course, but also because (it is implied) their destiny is to confront and eliminate evil, then depart. Stockburn is a contract laborer, as is Jack Wilson in Shane. Literally, a hired gun. Nothing personal, although Stockburn (as portrayed by John Russell) seems to me somewhat world-weary whereas Wilson still seems to enjoy killing whomever he must to complete an assignment.pOne final point: I have admired as well as enjoyed the development of Eastwood's skills as a director over several decades, beginning with Play Misty for Me (1971). I think there is much greater diversity in his selection and presentation of material as a director than there is as an actor. Some have characterized this as a "noir film" and in certain respects it is. The somber tone he establishes and then sustains in Pale Rider (1985) may well have contributed to the effectiveness of a comparable tone in later films, notably Unforgiven (1992). I am eager to see what new challenges he takes on in films yet to be directed but I am equally eager to see relationships of those films with earlier works such as this.
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