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Pale Rider

ORIGINAL TITLE

Pale Rider

YEAR

1985

RUNNING TIME

113 min.

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COUNTRY

(New) Visual section

DIRECTOR

Clint Eastwood

SCREENWRITER

Michael Butler, Dennis Shryack

COMPOSER

Lennie Niehaus

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Bruce Surtees

CAST

Clint Eastwood, Sydney Penny, Michael Moriarty, Elisha Cook, Chris Penn, Carrie Snodgress, Richard Dysart, John Russell, Richard Kiel, Billy Drago

STUDIO/PRODUCER

Warner Bros. Pictures / Malpaso

AWARDS

1985: Cannes Film Festival: Nominated for Golden Palm (Best Film)

GENRE

Western | Remake

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

A cadre of men employed by powerful strip-miner Coy LaHood (Richard Dysart) rides into a small mining encampment and begins shooting up the place. One of the terrorists kills the dog of young Megan Wheeler's (Sydney Penny). As Megan buries her pet, she says a prayer, begging the Lord to send someone to defend them. Later Megan sits with her widowed mother (Carrie Snodgress) and reads from the Bible: "And I saw, and behold, a pale horse, and its rider's name was death, and hell followed him." Then a lone horseman (Clint Eastwood), dressed as a preacher, rides into camp to help the struggling miners fight off LaHood. The supernatural elements of the story are incidental and handled in a restrained, subtle manner that does not distract from the story but enhances it, bringing another dimension to the oft-told tale. Eastwood the director has delivered a thought-provoking, well-crafted western.

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