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Pale Rider is a 1985 American Western film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood. The cast includes Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, and Chris Penn. Lennie Niehaus composed the score, while Bruce Surtees served as director of photography and Joel Cox as film editor. The narrative is set in California, and the film was produced by Malpaso Productions and Warner Bros. Entertainment.
The movie has a runtime of 115 minutes and was distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment and Netflix in video on demand format. It was released on June 28, 1985. The production had a budget of 6,900,000 and generated box office revenue of 41,410,568.
Critical reception includes a review score of 7.3/10 and a 93% rating. On IMDb, the film holds a rating of 7.3 based on 71,045 votes, while TMDb lists a vote average of 7.16 from 1,196 votes. The work is categorized as a Drama and Western, and it has been assessed against the Bechdel test.
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7.2A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.
Cast
- Clint Eastwood as Preacher
- Michael Moriarty as Hull Barret
- Carrie Snodgress as Sarah Wheeler
- Chris Penn as Josh LaHood
- Richard Dysart as Coy LaHood
- Sydney Penny as Megan Wheeler
Themes
- gunslinger
- showdown
- blackmail
- marshal
- mine
- settler
- gold mining town
- remake
- killer
- protector
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Clint Eastwood
- Written by
- Michael Butler, Dennis Shryack , Clint Eastwood (uncredited)
- Produced by
- Clint Eastwood
- Starring
- Clint Eastwood Michael Moriarty Carrie Snodgress Christopher Penn Richard Dysart Sydney Penny Richard Kiel Doug McGrath John Russell
- Cinematography
- Bruce Surtees
- Edited by
- Joel Cox
- Music by
- Lennie Niehaus
- Production company
- The Malpaso Company
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros.
- Release dates
- May 13, 1985 ( 1985-05-13 ) ( Cannes ) June 26, 1985 ( 1985-06-26 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 116 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $6.9 million
- Box office
- $41.4 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Pale Rider is a 1985 American Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, who also stars in the lead role. The title is a reference to Death as one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, described in the Book of Revelation (also spoken in the film's dialogue) as riding a pale horse; in the film, Eastwood rides a pale horse. The film took in over $41 million at the box office. It is Eastwood's only Western of the 1980s.
Plot
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