![]() ![]() In one such raid on the prospector’s quarters, a 15-year-old girl, Megan Wheeler (Penny), watches as her dog is killed. In an attempt to get rid of them so that they could employ their hydraulic mining operation to rape the entire valley of all its natural resources, the mine owner harasses their camp site and his hired thugs beat them up if they go to town. Otherwise, this is a somewhat disappointing venture not because it isn’t well-acted or directed, but because it is so stale and uninvolving.Ī big mine company is feuding with a motley group of independent prospectors who have a legal claim to the one place in this small California town’s territory that they don’t own, Carbon Valley. Pale Rider adds little to the traditional western genre except it is a visually stunning film as photographed by Bruce Surtees, and Clint’s heroics are enjoyable to watch as he unabashedly brings back many of the western’s classic confrontational scenes such as, the showdown on Main Street and of the helpless man made to dance as the gunslingers fire away at his feet. This theme has been done better many times before in such films as “Shane (53)” and in Clint’s own “High Plains Drifter (72).” When he wins he rides off into the sunset by his lonesome self, stoically ignoring what he hears in the distance - an attractive young hero-worshiping girl crying out that she loves him. It’s the saga about a lone mysterious man representing ‘good’ fighting the forces of ‘evil,’ taking up sides with those who don’t have the strength or courage to stand on their own. ![]() The cowboys of the Old West ride again in this tried and proven Western from Clint Eastwood. ![]() “The cowboys of the Old West ride again in this tried and proven Western from Clint Eastwood.” (director: Clint Eastwood screenwriters: Michael Butler/Dennis Shryack cinematographer: Bruce Surtees editor: Joel Cox cast: Clint Eastwood (Preacher), Michael Moriarty (Hull Barret), Carrie Snodgrass (Sarah Wheeler), Sydney Penny (Megan Wheeler), Doug McGrath (Spider Conway), Chris Penn (Josh LaHood), Richard Dysart (Coy LaHood), Richard Kiel (Club), John Russell (Stockburn) Runtime: 120 Warner Bros. ![]()
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