PALE RIDER CAST FULL
The elite team of deputies led by Marshal Stockburn (John Russell) who are hired by Lahood to kill the Preacher, are again an element in the film that weren't used to their full capacity in my opinion. Lahood himself is your stereotypical aged, short, tubby, balding man in a suit with a fat tash. K that's admittedly pretty bad but he does nothing much else. The only real evil he gets up to is attempted rape. You kinda expect more of a loose cannon, an annoying hotheaded youth shooting his mouth and guns off, but no. Its a good idea but nothing is really done with it.
Penn's character was the son of Lahood, basically he's the spoilt kid who's in a position of power but really shouldn't be. Then you had their leader, a very young Chris Penn. Basically they weren't a very intimidating bunch truth be told, hardly had me on the edge of my seat. I guess the problems start with the baddies, those dastardly miners. It all looked terrific and really popped on the screen. The clear blue skies, open grassy ranges, jagged mountains capped with snow, dense forests, and the highly authentic looking small town of Lahood.
PALE RIDER CAST MOVIE
I saw this movie on bluray which made this countryside look even more impressive. Filmed within the Boulder mountains and Sawtooth national park of Idaho, along with Tuolumne County in California, its all breathtaking. OK so firstly I have to mention the scenery in this movie, it is stunning. But low and behold, who should come trotting into the picture to save the day? Yep you've guessed it, its Clint as yet another no name hero (actually this character is a clerical man but he's simply referred to as the Preacher). Naturally the big-time miner known as Lahood (Richard Dysart) and his cronies are all baddies so they try to run the prospectors off the land with violence. Thing is they are doing so on land that a greedy big-time miner wants so he can mine it up. The plot: A small bunch of prospectors in California are trying their luck at panning for gold. And with that we get a very typical Clint Eastwood cowboy flick all the tropes and cliches you've come to expect which is both good and bad truth be told.
He was already slowly moving into a more varied selection of film roles and this seemed to be his final goodbye to this particular genre. This was, I think, Eastwood's last foray into the realms of western badassery as a no name loner dealing lots of badass justice. But yeah Eastwood was the supreme plains drifter with no name. In the dictionary under westerns, you'd see a picture of Eastwood (nah not really). By this point in his career Clint Eastwood was best known for his westerns, he was essentially the ultimate badass cowboy.
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