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02/09/06
Pale Rider (1985)
94 %
Reviews Counted: 17 Fresh: 16 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 7.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Genre: Westerns
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Chris Penn, Richard Dysart
Director: Clint Eastwood
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05/24/03
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It's a lightweight, easygoing affair, reminiscent of some of Hawks' or Ford's lesser Westerns.
05/16/08
Eastwood's mythic Western divided film critics: Some were baffled by the audacity of his playing a religious figure, while others claimed he was just embodying the mysterious knight-stranger, a common character in classic Westerns.
06/20/07
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Clint Eastwood stars as the mysterious stranger who arrives in a town and challenges the citizens to fight evil.
08/22/04
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05/20/03
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The cowboys of the Old West ride again in this tried and proven Western from Clint Eastwood.
01/01/00
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