Clint Eastwood

Michael Moriarty

Carrie Snodgress

Chris Penn

Richard Dysart

Sydney Penny

Richard Kiel

Doug McGrath

John Russell

Charles Hallahan

Marvin J. McIntyre

Fran Ryan

Richard Hamilton

Graham Paul

Chuck Lafont

Jeffrey Weissman

Allen Keller

Randy Oglesby

Herman Poppe

Kathleen Wygle

Terrence Evans

Jim Hitson

Loren Adkins

Tom Friedkin

S.A. Griffin

Jack Radosta

Robert Winley

Billy Drago

Jeffrey Josephson

John Dennis Johnston

Michael Adams

Clay M. Lilley

Gene Hartline

R. L. Tolbert

Clifford Happy

Ross Loney

Larry Randles

Mike H. McGaughy

Jerry Gatlin

Lloyd Nelson

Jay K. Fishburn

George Orrison

Milton Murrill

Mike Munsey

Keith Dillin

Buddy Van Horn

Fritz Manes

Glenn Wright

Kate Britton

Michael Butler

Dennis Shryack

Lennie Niehaus

Bruce Surtees

Joel Cox

Phyllis Huffman

Edward C. Carfagno

Ernie Bishop

Kathryn Blondell

Barbara Guedel

David Valdes

Michael Muscarella

Airick Kredell

Edward Aiona

Robert E. Sessa

Bob Lawless

Brooke Henderson Ward

Jules Strasser

Donald A. Bolger

C. Darin Knight

Les Fresholtz

Vern Poore

Rick Alexander

Alan Robert Murray

Robert G. Henderson

Chuck Gaspar

Stephen St. John

Leo J. Napolitano

Brad Edmiston

Buzz Feitshans IV

Baird Steptoe

Tama Takahashi

Mike Thomas

Jack N. Green

Bill Young

Kirk Bales

Tom Stern

Charles Saldaña III

Bruce D. Spellman

Marcia Reed

Jack Garsha

Donald Harris

Bill Miller

Linda Sony Kinney

Marco Barla

L. Dean Jones Jr.

Matt Earl Beesley

John Morrisey

Ed Ayer

Deborah Hopper

Darryl M. Athons

Judie Hoyt

Michael Maurer

Jim Porter

Bill McCamby

Paul Calabria

Karin Dew

Kerrie Cullen

Tom Ellison

Leroy Hershkowitz

Walt La Rue

James Winburn

Bob Herron

Western

Drama

Pale Rider

Warner Bros. Pictures

Malpaso Productions

United States of America

You can't beat a good bit of Hickory.

The opening to Pale Rider is just excellent, at first all is calm and serene, but then the peace is shattered by the thundering of hooves. A group of men employed by Coy LaHood, tear thru a small mining community, shooting guns and trampling over all in their way. During this callous act of bullying, one of the men shoots and kills young Megan's dog. When Megan buries her beloved pet, she calls to god to send someone to help them against the greedy LaHood, because LaHood is intent on stripping the locals of their claims, and he literally will stop at nothing to get them. Later on Megan is reading from the bible, she reads aloud to her mother about "beholding a pale horse and that the man who sat on it was death", we then see a lone horseman riding towards this under fire place...

Behold the pale horse because the man that sat on him was Clint Eastwood! And that's all you really want to know as regards what drives the film on. It had been quite some time since the movie watching world had witnessed a damn good Western, so it is obvious that Eastwood, knowing the genre inside out, felt it time to remind all and sundry about this engrossing genre and all its little peccadilloes. Riffing on his own High Plains Drifter from 1973 and homaging Shane in the process, Eastwood again uses supernatural leanings to play out this intriguing tale. Pale Rider works well because Eastwood cares for the genre so much, no frame is wasted and the acting on show delivers the necessary amount of quality to enhance the picture's impact. From the thundering opening to the gorgeous final shot, Pale Rider is an expertly crafted Western that still holds up today as a great entry on Eastwoods CV. Pale Rider. 8/10

This is a good'un.

<em>'Pale Rider'</em> features an enjoyable story featuring the gold rush, while the characters are all solid - Clint Eastwood gives a strong performance in the lead role, though I would've liked to have seen more of John Russell and his character.

I don't think it's perfect or anything, but I got entertainment from it and that's enough for me - I've not got much more to note.