In one small town there is a seasoned preacher trying to carry out a lofty mission for the benefit of a group of innocent people. The owners of neighboring lands tried to encircle a gold mining camp in the foothills of the California mountains to intimidate miners. The real aim of the intimidation seems to be that the workers are abandoning their land. The mysterious preacher moved to that camp in California using all his powers to try to persuade the landlord to abandon his attacks on the miners.
16 March 1954, San Antonio, Texas, USA
15 November 1933, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
31 December 1920, Chicago, Illinois, USA
13 September 1939, Detroit, Michigan, USA
10 June 1927, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
27 October 1945, Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
10 October 1965, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 October 1958
30 November 1945, Hugoton, Kansas, USA
20 June 1934, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 March 1950, New Mexico, USA
7 May 1924, Arlington, New Jersey, USA
22 April 1932, Oakland, California, USA
6 May 1951
31 May 1930, San Francisco, California, USA
9 December 1952, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
30 March 1929, Brighton, Massachusetts, USA
10 November 1945, USA
9 April 1943, USA
October 26, 2008
It had been so long since a quality western had hit America's screens that it appears as if Eastwood purposely set out to remind audiences of all the elements that make the genre work.
October 26, 2008
It's all been seen before, but Eastwood serves it up with authority, fine craftsmanship and a frequent sense of fun.
February 09, 2006
It's good to be back in the saddle again.
May 27, 2011
Though the metaphysical overtones of the screenplay are sometimes awkwardly handled and Eastwood's direction of actors (other than himself) is occasionally uncertain, this was one of the better American films of 1985.
October 23, 2004
[Eastwood] understands so well how he works on the screen that the movie has a resonance that probably was not even there in the screenplay.
May 16, 2008
It's a lightweight, easygoing affair, reminiscent of some of Hawks' or Ford's lesser Westerns.
June 20, 2007
Eastwood's mythic Western divided film critics: Some were baffled by the audacity of his playing a religious figure, while others claimed he was just embodying the mysterious knight-stranger, a common character in classic Westerns.
September 01, 2008
...who else would you want coming to your rescue than the Preacher Man With No Name?
September 12, 2008
His saddle bag is a mixed one, though Pale Rider still has the touch of quality associated with latter-day Eastwood. [Blu-ray]
July 14, 2005
Not Clint's best western, but entertaining enough.
October 26, 2008
Pale Rider does nothing to disprove the wisdom that this genre is best left to the revival houses. A double feature of Shane and Eastwood's High Plains Drifter will do just fine, thanks.
May 20, 2003
I'm just now beginning to realize that, though Mr. Eastwood may have been improving over the years, it's also taken all these years for most of us to recognize his very consistent grace and wit as a filmmaker.
