Pale Rider (1985) on Netflix
Mining baron Coy LaHood wages a war of intimidation against Carbon Canyon's prospectors. A stranger on a pale horse comes to the aid of Hull Barret, and the camp calls him Preacher.
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Plot summary
Coy LaHood, a mining baron, uses intimidation to push the independent prospectors of Carbon Canyon off their claims, and his men kill the dog of Megan Wheeler, whose mother Sarah is courted by the prospector Hull Barret. Megan prays for a miracle, and a stranger rides into the canyon on a pale horse. He fights off four of LaHood's men who attack Hull in town, and at dinner he wears a clerical collar, so the camp calls him Preacher. Hull sees six bullet wounds on his back. When Coy returns from Sacramento, he tries to bribe the newcomer, then threatens him, and offers the prospectors a thousand dollars a claim to leave within a day.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Pale Rider (1985)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Pale Rider was the first mainstream Hollywood Western to be produced after the massive financial failure of Heaven's Gate in 1980.
SPOILER
In an audio interview Clint Eastwood said that his character Preacher "is an out-and-out ghost", although, unlike his 1973 western High Plains Drifter, Pale Rider gives no obvious clues to Preacher's nature beyond six bullet wound scars on his back and his relationship with Stockburn.- The music used in the film's trailer was a stock piece by the British composer Alan Hawkshaw, titled "Best Endeavours" and known to British viewers as the title theme for Channel 4 News, which had not secured permanent exclusivity rights to it.
- The film took in over $41 million at the box office and stands as Eastwood's only Western of the 1980s.
