Shot on location in sun valley, idaho, and to some esteem to shane, pale rider succeeded with sweeping landscapes and magnificent cinematography, to be an interesting western that helps to bring back something from eastwoods mystique in 1850 california, a small group squatters and their families find themselves terrorized by coy lahood richard dysart, who are standing win the way of his progress desperate, lahood begins using violence in an unsuccessful attempt to run the peaceful yet. The miners are in grave danger as a ruthless landowner decides to take their land, with the support of sheriff stockburn john russell. Twopart drama the pale horse was a heady, grimy, occulttinged story about one man who killed for money and another who did it out of possessive, jealous anger. With clint eastwood, michael moriarty, carrie snodgress, sydney penny. Clint eastwood has by now become an actor whose moods and silences are so well known that the slightest suggestion will do to convey an. Pale rider is a film directed by clint eastwood with clint eastwood, sydney penny, michael moriarty, elisha cook, year. Clint eastwood produced, directed and starred in this taut western, one of the most successful of the 1980s.
From start to finish the book presents its arguments clearly and concisely and leaves the reader in no doubt of. Pale rider is a 1985 american western film produced and directed by clint eastwood, who. This is a mixed bag for an eastwood western it really is. Pale rider 1985 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Clint eastwood is a mysterious preacher who comes to a gold mining camp near a small town in the mountains. Pale rider is an excellent and readable account of the pandemic that swept the world in 1918 and caused the deaths of so many millions of people. On the one hand the movie is serious about its story, this isnt a film for kids or anything. Best mistakes best pictures new this month best comedy quotes most mistakes questions movie quote quiz imdb top 250 best of 2020 pale rider 1985 12 mistakes. This time, eastwood is known as the stranger and the preacher who decides to help a small village of people from miners who intend to take over their land. A mysterious and possibly otherworldly stranger comes to the rescue of a frontier town in this western, which was strongly influenced by the george stevens classic, shane.
Pale rider 1985 one of clint eastwoods later westerns focused on a preacher with a mysterious past who comes to the aid of a peaceful mining camp being bullied by a greedy mining company. The movies title is taken from the book of revelation, chapter 6, verse 8. Plot a group of gold miners have set up camp on a mountain ridge in north america. But it fails to account for the fact that shane is hideously annoying and reeks of the 1950s, and that high plains drifter is slow, rambling, random, and senseless. Sep 12, 2017 pale rider is an excellent and readable account of the pandemic that swept the world in 1918 and caused the deaths of so many millions of people. Kevin dillon at an event for pale rider 1985 clint eastwood at an event for pale rider 1985 pale rider 1985. Pale rider is a virtual remake of the classic western shane. Pale horse, pale rider is a trio of short novels published by the writer katherine anne porter in 1939 the titles of those three short novels are old mortality, noon wine, and pale horse, pale. So much so that i didnt realise until a few years ago that he had only made it in 1985. Pale rider does nothing to disprove the wisdom that this genre is best. Shane worked from the archetypal traditions of three decades of movie westerns. Pale rider has great acting along with excellent direction, however a recycled plot. This movie has plot similarities to the classic western shane 1953, including a final scene that is very similar to the famous final scene of the earlier movie. As the good book says throughout the film as can be expected when the hero is the preacher, but especially the passage from revelation the page quote that megan and her mother read as the preacher rides in.
Although pale rider is a step down from producerdirector eastwoods high plains drifter which it most resembles, it had been so long since a quality western. The series is an adaptation of agatha christies 1961 novel of. The miners there find themselves in grave danger after a ruthless landowner decides to take their land. Pale rider 1985 film and plot synopsis in pale rider, a mysterious preacher rides in to a gold mining camp near a small town in the mountains.
He tries everything to run them out, including wrecking their homes and. The town is ruled by a cabal of evil men, revolving. Pale rider synopsis favorite movie button overview. In contrast, pale rider is magical, satisfying, engaging, delightful, and perfectlypaced all the way through. An itinerant preacher clint eastwood helps out prospecting families being harassed by ruthless landowners in a spectacular western which, though set in california, was mainly filmed around sawtooth national recreation area on on i75 north of sun valley, 756,000 acres of scenic mountain country which encompasses the sawtooth wilderness, white. Before the pale rider and sarah closed the door, whose voice was it calling out preacher several times. Pale rider has often been described as cross between shane and high plains drifter. Pale rider was also directed by leading man clint eastwood. The pale horse is a work of detective fiction by agatha christie first published in the uk by the collins crime club on 6 november 1961, and in the us by dodd, mead and company the following year. They are a group of honest people lead by barret, owner. The film steals its story done to each plot point from the classic film and book shane.
The best movie quotes, movie lines and film phrases by movie quotes. In pale rider, a mysterious preacher rides in to a gold mining camp near a small town in the mountains. Pale rider is a modern era western that feels right out of clint eastwoods classic western period. The pale horse on amazon prime video ending explained. Mar 31, 2012 198 videos play all pale rider 1985 full movie pale rider full movie hd 1985 quigley down under sam colt quote duration. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing pale rider near you. Sep 21, 2018 its clear that clints character was a re incarnation or ghost of marshall jim duncan. They sing what they can remember of its 40 verses, in which the rider done taken away mammy, pappy, brother, sister, the whole family besides the lover miranda interrupts adam to point out that not everybody has been taken away.
The title is a reference to the four horsemen of the apocalypse, as the rider of a pale horse is death. Pale rider is the title of clint eastwoods entertaining, mystical new western, and the name of him who sits on the pale horse is, simply, the. Stockburn, the marshal, is a villainous take on the trope. Jun 04, 2017 pale rider by laura spinney is published by jonathan cape. Filmen regisserades och producerades av clint eastwood. Pale horse, pale rider quotes showing 110 of 10 death always leaves one singer to mourn. The film makes use of beautiful natural scenery in idaho and california to recreate the landscape of the old west. A stranger rides into town and conflict forces him to act. When a student showed alice mcdermott a discarded library copy of katherine anne porters pale horse, pale rider, stamped low demand, mcdermott felt like shed been punched in. At a mining camp by a creek, prospectors calmly pan for gold and inspect their sluice boxes. The novel features her novelist detective ariadne oliver as a minor character, and reflects in tone the.
They are constantly under attack from the henchmen of a greedy land barron who wants that land for himself. The woman puts 3 bullets into the bathtub and clints character survi. Toward the end of the miniseries, based on the agatha christie novel of the same name, viewers. An interactive data visualization of pale horse, pale riders plot and themes. Pale rider may be a risk simply because westerns are not in vogue right now at the box office, but fresh and challenging westerns with clint eastwood always will be in vogue. A fearless gunslinger, yes, but also a mysterious man whose physical prowess is wedded to a spiritual power and a. Near the end of the movie, eastwood is tossing sticks of dynamite into the bad miners camp. In pale rider, clint eastwood is the director, and having directed himself in nine previous films, he understands so well how he works on the screen that the movie has a resonance that probably was not even there in the screenplay. The time is a nonspecific, postcival war period, which is the era of all movie westerns, unless otherwise dated.
No actor is more aware of his own instruments, and eastwood demonstrates that in pale rider, a film he dominates so completely that only later. A cadre of men employed by powerful stripminer coy lahood richard dysart rides into a small mining encampment and begins shooting up the place. In a small california mining town, some independent miners have staked a claim to a promising lode. The west of shane was the same west that william s. One of the terrorists kills the dog of young megan. Pale rider 1985 movie summary and film synopsis on mhm. In its broad outlines, pale rider is a traditional western, with a story that has been told, in one form or another, a thousand times before. In high plains drifter, is the stranger the dead marshals. Boulder mtn, in the sawtooth national recreation area, was the perfect location for this movie. But phelps has also taken the bare bones of the plot and fleshed things out in her own particular way. The pale horse is now streaming on amazon prime video after airing on the bbc in the uk in february. Viewers are left to draw their own conclusions regarding the overall story line and its meaning.
Clint eastwood at an event for pale rider 1985 clint eastwood and john russell in pale rider 1985 pale rider. Pale horse, pale rider study guide literature guide litcharts. But that aside, pale rider in story terms is just formula western moviemaking. Originally published in a collection with two other short novels, pale. Adam and miranda both vaguely remember the song pale horse, pale rider. Ghosts are usually transparent and would come back as a spirit form rather than body form. Suddenly the dogs start barking furiously, and people stop what theyre doing to look. Members of a small mining camp mine for gold in a small creek. The pale horse tv series on the bbc has now come to an end after two episodes. Pale rider is a 1985 western film produced and directed by, and starring clint eastwood. A group of california prospectors are harassed by a powerful mine owner until a mysterious stranger known only as preacher eastwood rides into town to help defend them.
A mysterious preacher clint eastwood protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land. Pale rider, on the other hand, uses the west developed by sergio leone and sam peckinpah, a squalid, violent place alternately gloomy and glaringly white with the. In the pale horse, she has kept the killer and the solution basically the same. The riders approach the camp, crossing through the creek and through the local woods. It had been quite some time since the movie watching world had witnessed a damn good western, so it is. Preacher fends off the attacks, and then goes directly to lahood to negotiate. Released june 28th, 1985, pale rider stars clint eastwood, michael moriarty, carrie snodgress, chris penn the r movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 55 min, and received a score of 61 out of 100. Its clear that clints character was a re incarnation or ghost of marshall jim duncan. Mar 31, 2012 198 videos play all pale rider 1985 full movie pale rider full movie hd 1985 mike tyson the hardest puncher in boxing ever. Pale horse, pale rider isbn 0151707553 is a collection of three short novels by american author katherine anne porter published in 1939 while these three short novels old mortality, noon wine and the eponymous pale horse, pale rider, have been described as novellas, porter referred to them as short novels. It just feels like it was made earlier than that, perhaps due in part to the fact that the 1980s werent exactly swimming in examples of the genre. The pale horse finale explained bbc drama ending changed. Nagra guldletare befinner sig i en fejd med maktmogulen coy. This onepage guide includes a plot summary and brief analysis of pale horse, pale rider by katherine anne porter.
In the movie shane, the characters are typically good or bad. Dont you love weather and the colors at different times of the day, and all the sounds and noises like children screaming. Originally published in a collection with two other short novels, pale horse, pale rider tells the semiautobiographical tale of a young woman who survives the 1918 influenza epidemic. Pale rider is a 1985 american western film produced and directed by clint eastwood, who also stars in the lead role. He is revealed to be a preacher with mysterious and possible otherworldly origins who teams up with the miners to defeat the land owner and the corrupt sheriff. Brief biography of katherine anne porter katherine anne porter was born callie russel porter on may 15, 1890 in indian creek, texas. With the sheriff supporting that landowner, theres only one man brave enough to save them. Jul 02, 2015 he is revealed to be a preacher with mysterious and possible otherworldly origins who teams up with the miners to defeat the land owner and the corrupt sheriff. The final shot of the movie shows preacher riding through the snow in the mountains.
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