Pale Rider [Blu-ray] | Clint Eastwood, Richard Dysart

Pale Rider [Blu-ray] | Clint Eastwood, Richard Dysart | Great for a gift

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Pale Rider [Blu-ray]

	Pale Rider [Blu-ray] Clint Eastwood, Richard Dysart Warner Home Video, 2008 average customer review:based on 73 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great Western!

A good western starring Clint Eastwood released in 1985 bringing a more developed plot variation of "High Plains Drifter" released several years before. The film benefits from a good screenplay and script in which there are more well developed characters to keep the audience interested.

The film is set in a small mining town where independent miners are terrorized by the boss who owns the mine and adjacent town. Clint Eastwood rides into town as "The Preacher" and sides with the beleaguered miners against the local boss. The film remains mysterious as to whether "The Preacher" is really a man or a ghostly apparition from the past coming to claim revenge for past misdeeds. The town boss eventually hires a crooked Marshall and his posse to take care of The Preacher and there seems to be a past connecting them together. The Preacher almost leads one to think that he was the main character in "Hang 'Em High" because of the noose mark on his neck that he hides with a scarf.

This is certainly one of Eastwood's better westerns that has a good plot and extensive character development. The film also has a certain element of the supernatural as no one knows exactly whether Eastwood's character is a living man or an avenging ghost coming out of the past. Overall an excellent film worth renting or owning.

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Great for a gift

I purchased this for my dad. I have to say this one was the hardest for me to find until I went to Amazon. Great gift, great joy seeing my dad's face when he saw it.

Eastwood at his best

Seen just about all of the movies made/ directed by clint eastwood yet this is one of the most haunting. And as many times as I have seen it, it is fresh, almost like seeing it for the first time. The contrast between the placer and hydraulic mining and their adherents is especially riveting. Movie just grabs you.

Not your average western

This is a very entertaining Clint Eastwood western, that I have probably watched more times than any other film. Its nearer 5 stars for me in fact. Certainly if you've see Shane and Eastwoods own High Plains Drifter you'll have a good idea what to expect.
However, there is more going on here than you might initially think. Eastwoods preacher certainly appears to be a ghost or supernatural apparition of some sort. In the prelude to the final gunfight he should be dead (this is the scene where the preacher sits with his back to the door drinking Coffee). The supernatural element is hinted at a few times but not overplayed.
Whether you accept the premise of a supernatural element is actually irrelevant. Eastwood plays the part with his usual conviction and magnetic screen presense. You'll believe that he could outgun or outfight a whole army on his own - supernatural or not!

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Entertaining but flawed

The main character is typical Clint Eastwood - strong, stoic, independent. The plot has just enough complexity to be entertaining without too much confusion, and the characters have reasonable depth. The only troubling scene is a rape scene in the beginning. The audience is supposed to accept that she "really wanted it" - a dangerous message, I think.

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