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DVD. Feature film. 116 min. Standard & widescreen enhanced for widescreen TV. Dolby dig. remix. Sound & subtitles in Engl., French, & Spanish. Cast bios., film hilites, product ion notes, & 3 theatrical trailers. Stars Clint Eastwood. C C. Clint Eastwood produced, directed, and stars in this intelligent Western tale. Poor gold miners feel they have little choice but to desert their land when some corporate thugs threaten their lives. But one young girl has a better idea: She prays for help--and not too long after, a mysterious stranger comes riding into town, dressed as a preacher. But he's not like all those other preachers.... A girl kneels over the grave of her murdered dog, praying for a miracle, while off in the distance, a man rides toward town on a pale horse. Clint Eastwood's PALE RIDER was the filmmaker's first Western in nearly a decade. It finds a pleasant balance between the mystical revisionism of films such as HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER and the traditional Western. Eastwood stars as the Preacher, who wanders into a dusty California town and tries to rescue a community of gold prospectors that is being terrorized by the local corporate mining operation, which is strip-mining the land. He's taken in by Hull Barrett (Michael Moriarty), who lives with Sarah Wheeler (Carrie Snodgrass) and her 14-year-old daughter, she of the murdered pooch, Megan (Sydney Penny). The Preacher is something of a blend of Eastwood's Man with No Name and the title character of George Stevens's SHANE. The story and treatment are straightforward and entertaining, and the strong performances draw the audience in. The Preacher remains a mysterious character, but in the end, as he takes on the evil mining corporation's hired guns, it's impossible not to root for him. The film was shot in Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Idaho, and in Columbia, California.
Screenwriters Michael Butler and Dennis Shryack also wrote THE GAUNTLET. They told Eastwood that they wanted to write a Western, so he worked with them on the treatment for PALE RIDER.
The film was shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
Sydney Penny (Megan Wheeler) won a Young Artist Award for Exceptional Performance by a Young Actress in a Motion Picture.
This was Eastwood's first Western in nine years, after THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES. Pale Rider Quotes/Excerpts: "Nothing like a nice piece of hickory."--The Preacher (Clint Eastwood), after dispatching several thugs with an ax handle. Pale Rider Reviews: "...The Western has returned in fine shape under the strong, knowing guidance of Clint Eastwood in PALE RIDER..."
-- Cart., Variety "...Entertaining, mystical....Extremely well cast, beginning with the star..."
-- Vincent Canby, New York Times Pale Rider | List Price | $12.97 (You save $5.08) | | Studio | Warner Home Video | | Orig Year | 1985 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  737  | | CD Universe Part number | 1261959 | | Catalog number | 11475 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Nov 19, 1997 | | Rating | R (MPAA) | | Running Time | 116 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen | | Movie Details | Color; Dolby Surround AC-3 Sound; Surround Sound; Digital Sound; Stereo Sound; Letter Boxed; Widescreen |
Pale Rider DVD Region 1
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Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Letterbox -
1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound - English
Dolby Digital Mono - French
Dolby Digital Mono - Spanish
Additional Release Material:
Trailers: Theatrical (2)
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