Pale Rider

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 the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as the pale horse's ghost rider (Eastwood) represents Death. The film, which took in over $41 million at the box office, became the highest-grossing Western of the 1980s.[3]

Pale Rider

In the Old West, outside LaHood, California in Carbon Valley, mining baron Coy LaHood is waging a war of intimidation against independent prospectors and their families, including Hull Barret who is courting Sarah Wheeler. Sarah's teenaged daughter, Megan, prays for deliverance from LaHood after a gang of his men attack the mining camp and kill her dog. Shortly afterward, a man atop a pale horse rides into Carbon Valley. When Hull heads to town to pick up supplies, four of Lahood's men beat him with axe handles before the stranger fights them off with his own axe handle. Hull then invites his rescuer to dinner and, while the stranger is washing, notices what appears to be six bullet wounds in his back. When the stranger arrives at the dining table, he is wearing a clerical collar and is thereafter referred to as "Preacher". Coy LaHood's son, Joshua, attempts to scare off the Preacher with a gigantic workman named Club. Preacher, however, disables Club with a sledgehammer blow to the groin.

Instead of filling each scene with his own image and dialogue, Eastwood uses sleight of hand: We are shown his eyes, or a corner of his mouth, or his face in shadow, or his figure with strong light behind it. He has few words. The other characters in the movie project their emotions upon him. He may indeed be the pale rider suggested in the title, whose name was death, but he may also be an avenging spirit, come back from the grave to confront the man who murdered him. One of the subtlest things in the movie is the way it plays with the possibility that Eastwood's character may be a ghost, or at least something other than an ordinary mortal.

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As many years separate 2017 from Pale Rider as that movie is from Shane, and to watch both back-to-back as the Byrd makes possible this week is to experience a seismic shift in America and American cinema. Together, the two films tell a familiar and fascinating story, exploring good and evil, pale riders and black hats and the gray areas in between.

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The independent miners barely scratching out a living in a canyon outside LaHood, California, are terrorized by the businessman (Richard Dysart), for whom the town is named. Hull Barret (Michael Moriarty) tries to stand up to this persecution, but his efforts are uninspiring. Megan (Sydney Penny), the 15-year-old daughter of Hull's fiancée Sarah (Carrie Snodgrees), prays for help. As she recites from the Bible, "And I looked, and beheld a pale horse, and his name that at on him was Death, and hell followed with him," a preacher (Clint Eastwood) arrives in the makeshift mining community.

One of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, he rides a pale horse and represents death. He has the power to destroy life. The four horsemen have the power to conquer and kill and often thought to bring chaos. 041b061a72