Pale Rider - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Pale Rider or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Pale Rider

[victoria]

The opening scene of this movie where an innocent town is attacked is similar to the opening of Eastwood's western The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), where Josey's family is attacked by soldiers.

[ray]

Apparently, the long gap between Clint Eastwood making westerns was caused by a mid-life allergy Eastwood had to horses.

[addison]

This movie is considered by some to be a remake of the classic, Shane (1953).

[kenzi]

In one scene, Clint Eastwood pulls his gun with his left hand because of a shoulder injury he suffered by falling off of a horse during the making of this film.

[willard]

After Club (Richard Kiel) gets hit between the legs, Preacher (Clint Eastwood) helps him back to his horse. You do not see this, but Richard, due to back problems, had to use a step that was on the side of the horse to get onto his saddle. If you look you can see Richard take a step onto the platform before getting on the horse.

[alyssa]

Spider Conway is shot 23 times by Stockburn and his deputies. He still doesn't die, and Stockburn himself puts a 24th bullet between his eyes to finally kill him.

[elmer]

This movie was entered into competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1985.

[caroline]

The first horse assigned to Richard Kiel collapsed the first time he climbed aboard. He was then assigned a stronger horse.

[kylie]

Despite the notorious financial and critical failure of Heaven's Gate (1980), the Hollywood movie industry within about five years of that movie revived the oater movie genre during the mid 1980s, producing a mini-cycle of Western movies of which churned out such Western oaters as Silverado (1985), Rustlers' Rhapsody (1985), Pale Rider (1985), and Lust in the Dust (1984).

[maureen]

Warren Clarke said in an interview with TV Times that he was offered a role in this movie.

[dustin]

The second of two westerns starring and directed by Clint Eastwood in which the ending implies that Eastwood's character is possibly a ghost. The first was High Plains Drifter (1973).

[camila]

Remade as Missionary Man (2007).

[linda]

This movie has three connections with Back to the Future Part III (1990). The train station set built for this movie was also used in that movie, and Richard Dysart (Coy LaHood) in this movie, played a barbed wire salesman. Also Marvin J. Macintyre plays the hill valley undertaker.