PALE RIDER
DIRECTED AND PRODUCED BY CLINT EASTWOOD
MALPASO/ WARNER BROTHERS
Information From IMDb
Plot Summary
Clint Eastwood is a mysterious preacher who comes to a gold mining camp near a small town in the mountains. The miners are in grave danger as a ruthless landowner decides to take their land, with the support of the sheriff. The only one who seems brave enough to save them is this preacher who came from nowhere and nobody knows his past or his real name. Why is the sheriff afraid of him? Why is he such a good shooter? Is he really a preacher?
Cast
Clint Eastwood ... Preacher
Michael Moriarty ... Hull Barret
Carrie Snodgress ... Sarah Wheeler
Chris Penn ... Josh LaHood (as Christopher Penn)
Richard Dysart ... Coy LaHood
Sydney Penny ... Megan Wheeler
Richard Kiel ... Club
Doug McGrath ... Spider Conway
John Russell ... Stockburn
Charles Hallahan ... McGill
Marvin J. McIntyre ... Jagou
Fran Ryan ... Ma Blankenship
Richard Hamilton ... Jed Blankenship
Graham Paul ... Ev Gossage
Chuck Lafont ... Eddie Conway (as Chuck LaFont)
Jeffrey Weissman ... Teddy Conway
Allen Keller ... Tyson
Randy Oglesby ... Elam (as Tom Oglesby)
Herman Poppe ... Ulrik Lindquist
Kathleen Wygle ... Bess Gossage
Terrence Evans ... Jake Henderson
Jim Hitson ... Biggs
Loren Adkins ... Bossy
Thomas H. Friedkin ... Miner Tom (as Tom Friedkin)
S.A. Griffin ... Deputy Folke
Jack Radosta ... Deputy Grissom
Robert Winley ... Deputy Kobold
Billy Drago ... Deputy Mather
Jeffrey Josephson ... Deputy Sedge
John Dennis Johnston ... Deputy Tucker
And many others
Writing Credits
Michael Butler
Dennis Shryack
Also Produced by
Fritz Manes .... executive producer
David Valdes .... associate producer
Trivia
* Warren Clarke has said in an interview with TV Times that he was offered a role in this project
* The first horse assigned to Richard Kiel collapsed the first time he climbed aboard. He was then assigned a stronger horse.
* Preacher uses a Remington 1858 revolver, a percussion revolver with a top strap that allowed the entire cylinder to be removed, permitting the user to carry multiple loaded cylinders. This enabled the shooter to reload much more quickly than Colt percussion revolvers of the same time period.
Goofs
* Continuity: Amount of snow in town, and seasons in general.
* Continuity: The stick of dynamite that Barret throws away after it is dropped by the Preacher explodes much too soon considering the length of the fuse still attached to it.
* Continuity: When Barret throws a stick of dynamite into the tent, it lands near the front of the tent. The explosion comes from inside the tent. After the explosion the lit fuse of the thrown dynamite can clearly be seen.
* Continuity: When Hull Barret rides into town by himself on the wagon he is fine. When riding out with The Preacher after the fight you can see a cast on his arm. It is also visible as he mounts the wagon. Back in camp, it's fine again.
* Crew or equipment visible: During the final gunfight, one of the gunslingers walks under a roof overhang on the side of a building where what appears to be a pair of aluminum colored floodlight housings can be seen.
* Miscellaneous: When Preacher splashes the man holding a lit match over Barret's wagon with a bucket of water, he actually fails to put the match out.
* Continuity: In the final scenes where the Preacher searches out and shoots the Deputies, the Preacher is shown shooting one of the Deputies in the back and the Deputy falls forward onto what should be his front. We then see a Deputy with a bullet hole in his forehead, presumably put there by the Preacher, he staggers a little then falls face down. The next we see of the dead Deputy is that he is lying face up with a couple of the other Deputies walking slowly around the body while continuing to search out the Preacher.
* Revealing mistakes: when the preacher approaches Stockburn he unlocks his fire arm to re-chamber it. The bullet chamber he chooses is empty yet he locks it in place and kills the Marshal Stockburn. The cylinder is visibly empty!
* Revealing mistakes: When Megan picks up her dog which has just been shot dead the dog's body is stiff, an obvious prop.
Memorable Quotes
The Preacher: Nothing like a good piece of hickory.
Coy LaHood: Sacramento ain't worth moose piss.
Coy LaHood: Do you imbibe?
The Preacher: Only after nine in the morning.
Megan Wheeler: Preacher? Preacher? We love you Preacher... I love you!... Good-bye!
The Preacher: Well, if you're waitin' for a woman to make up her mind, you may have a a long wait.
Filming Locations
Columbia State Historic Park - 22708 Broadway, Columbia, California, USA
Railtown 1897 State Historical Park, Jamestown, California, USA
(rail station)
Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Idaho, USA