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Genres:
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Action /
Western
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Release:
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Director:
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Clint Eastwood
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Actors:
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Chris Penn,
Marvin J. McIntyre,
Doug McGrath,
Richard Kiel,
Richard Hamilton,
John Russell,
Fran Ryan,
Sydney Penny,
Graham Paul,
Chuck Lafont,
Clint Eastwood,
Michael Moriarty,
Carrie Snodgress,
Richard Dysart,
Charles Hallahan
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Duration:
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111 min.
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Rating:
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(7.1/10)116
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Plot Summary:
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A gold mining camp in the California foothills is besieged beside a neighboring landowner determined on stealing their claims. A preacher rides into bivouac and uses all of his powers of denomination to bring around the landowner to assign up his attacks on the miners.
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Clint rides in
One of Clints best westerns nice easy paced and some good one liners as well.
Although you know the bad guys ain't gonna win.
The only fault I found was when the ground was thick with snow. Marshall Stockburn tells the two boys to tell the Preacher to come into town, when he does there is no snow.
Straightforward Western
Stop me if you've heard this one. The residents of a small mining town are being terrorized by a local landowner but salvation arrives in the shape of an enigmatic stranger. The stranger stands up for the villagers, defeats the villains, and disappears as mysteriously as he arrived.
Consider the fact that the stranger here is played by Clint Eastwood and you'd be forgiven for suffering a sense of deja vu. This is one of the oldest stories in the genre and one Clint has already done better in his earlier 'High Plains Drifter'(1973). However, that's not to say 'Pale Rider' is totally without merit.
As always with Eastwood's films the cinematography(here by Bruce Surtees) is excellent and the film is never less than entertaining. Eastwood has also...
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