Clint as Pale Rider's Preacher, with Jack Palance's villain from Shane.
Summary Clint Eastwood's underrated Pale Rider took a classic Western from the 1950s and gave it a decidedly supernatural edge. Clint Eastwood's Westerns are some of the most defining of the genre, and he was one of the last major stars to make his name on "Oaters." The failure of Heaven's Gate in 1980 killed Westerns for much of the decade, with studios largely shunning them.
Director George Stevens Release Date August 14, 1953 Writers A.B. Guthrie Jr. , Jack Sher , Jack Schaefer Cast Alan Ladd , Jean Arthur , Van Heflin , Brandon De Wilde , Jack Palance , Ben Johnson , Edgar Buchanan , Emilie Meyer Main Genre Western If Pale Rider's story sounds vaguely familiar, it's because the basic premise is taken from 1953's Shane.
These similarities extend to the final showdowns, where both Preacher and Shane face off against their moral opposites; John Russell's Marshal Stockburn for the former and Jack Palance's Wilson in the latter. Shane was such an influential work that it helped shape many of the tropes that would come to define the genre, including the retired killer forced to pick up his old ways again.
Eastwood's character may not walk through walls or vanish into thin air, but Pale Rider makes it clear he's not exactly a regular dude. This element distances it from Shane while adding a mythological touch to the premise. There's a good possibility that Eastwood's character in High Plains Drifter is a vengeful spirit of some kind too, though the 1973 film - and the star himself - leaves this interpretation up to viewers to decide for themselves.
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