Pale Rider details
| Format: | 15 DVD |
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| Starring: | Marvin J. Mc Intyre, Elisha Cook, Chris Penn, Billy Drago, John Russell, Richard Kiel, Clint Eastwood, Douglas Mc Grath, Christopher Penn, Carrie Snodgress, Richard Dysart, Michael Moriarty, Sydney Penny, Charles Hallahan |
| Director: | Clint Eastwood |
| Genre: | Action/Adventure - Westerns |
| Studio: | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Collections: | Clint Eastwood |
| Name | Discs | |
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Pale Rider |
15 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 51 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 14 Mar 2005 |
| Main languages: | English |
| Dubbed: | French, Italian |
| Subtitles: | Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish |
| Hearing impaired subtitles: | English, Italian |
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Straightforward Western
By Philip Concannon from London , 15 Aug 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
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 assembled a fine cast including Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress and Richard Kiel. Chris Penn has an early role and there's a remarkable performance 14 year-old Sydney Penny.
Unfortunately Eastwood lays on too much skewed religious symbolism as his near-omnipresent preacher lays the bad guys to waste. The story's adherence to the basic conventions of the genre is also disappointing particularly as Eastwood is usually at his best when going against those conventions.
This is still a highly enjoyable western but there's nothing here you haven't seen before. Clint has made masterpieces in this genre with 'Unforgiven'(1992) and 'The Outlaw Josey Wales'(1976), and those films leave this looking like a pale imitation.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(29)Gun of a preacher man.
By PJshadow (199 reviews) from Leeds , 14 Oct 2010[Highly rated reviewer]
Sometimes all you need when you're a small mining community being bullied out of your land by the big boys is a sharp shooting, street fighting, preacher man to come along to help you fight back.
Clint Eastwood is in familiar territory as the drifter coming to the aid of the downtrodden. Eastwood could play parts like this in his sleep with the tough guy one liners and the menacing scowls.
Pale Rider is a bit of a slow burner with the action sparse but the pace picks up dramatically in the final act with the introduction of Stockburn and his evil deputies.
Is he a preacher, a killer, an angel on a mission from God? All we know for sure is he's Clint and he's cool.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Dull Rider
By russio (158 reviews) from Harlow , 01 Oct 2010Flat, cliched genre pic with Clint in standard form. Perhaps a work out for more interesting fare later and certainly this is watchable but essentially pointless and unrewarding.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Almost a remake of High Plains Drifter.
By ScreenSimian (75 reviews) from Watford , 26 May 2010This is a very watchable Western, but nothing too special. With Clint Eastwood, I was expecting something a little better, but it is a straightforward plot harking back to the days of Eastwood's classic Westerns.
There's a touch of the supernatural, and whether the 'preacher' played by Eastwood has returned from the dead, but this plot is never explored much. It is basically what the film title alludes to though.- Was this review helpful to you?
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good film,i have seen before
By a customer from suffolk,england , 06 Jan 2010good film,i have seen before,it not my type of film(my partners),part from that ok.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Pale Rider
By legendkilla (14 reviews) from Cardiff , 14 Oct 2009very good, worth to watch!- Was this review helpful to you?
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