Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786300270725 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 6300270726 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: April 01, 1992 Running Time: 116 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: June 28, 1985 Sales Rank: 13071
Amazon.com essential video: After a nine-year break from the genre that made him an international star (the Western just before this one was The Outlaw Josey Wales, from 1976), Clint Eastwood returned in this gritty Western, crafted in the tradition of Shane and High Noon. Eastwood directed and stars as the nameless stranger known only as "Preacher," because he rides into a beleaguered mining town wearing a clerical collar. He's either an agent of death or an angel of mercy, and the echoes of Shane ring loud and clear when he comes to the aid of independent miners who are being terrorized by a local tycoon (Richard Dysart) and his ruthless band of hired guns. Befriended by a miner (Michael Moriarty) and idolized by the miner's wife and daughter (played by Carrie Snodgress and Sydney Penny, respectively), the "Pale Rider" sparks the defiant spirit of the underdog miners and takes after the bad guys with single-minded purpose. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating: - Death has a new name, its Mr. Eastwood
Old Clint really delivers in this movie. Justice is served to a company of blast miners who try to drive out a town of prospectors. Clint truly is the Pale Rider....his name was Death and Hell followed ... Read More
Rating: - good western!
this is one of my fav. clint eastwood westerns! i received this movie like brand new!
Rating: - The least of Clint's Westerns....
This is the least of Clint Eastwood's Western films. That is not to say that it's bad. It has a lot of good in it. It has great scenery (it was shot on location in Idaho by the great Bruce Surtees), ... Read More
Rating: - Better than Shane
One of the best Clint Eastwood westerns of all time. A retelling of the Shane story, but done so much better. I don't even own Shane since this beats it in every way.
Rating: - Coolest Clint Eastwood Ever.
Not very original (Clint got some ideas from previous westerns) but probably the coolest Clint Eastwood western of all time. Although "Unforgiven" was more realistic and "The Outlaw Josie Wales" had a better ... Read More
- Death has a new name, its Mr. Eastwood
- The least of Clint's Westerns....