Eastwood and his writers exercise their ingenuity. The fascination lies not in what is going to happen but in how, and it's here that Mr.
#PALE RIDER CAST MOVIE#
''Pale Rider'' is not the equal of ''The Outlaw Josey Wales.'' That the hero of the new movie really is a god of some sort eliminates a certain amount of suspense. There are laughs in it, and all but one or two of them are intentional, including a final, shameless quote from George Stevens's ''Shane.'' Eastwood's self-directed films as of the Eastwood films directed by Don Siegel. Eastwood's ''Gauntlet'' and Chuck Norris's ''Code of Silence,'' is a Western played absolutely straight, but it's also very funny in a dryly sophisticated way that - it's only now apparent - has been as true of Mr. ''Pale Rider, written by Michael Butler and Dennis Shryack, who also wrote Mr.
The difficulty is in bringing it off, which is where Mr. It doesn't take particular inventiveness for an actor-director to cast himself as God, or even as His Son. Resurrection also is the key to ''Pale Rider.'' However, just who this fellow was in his previous incarnation is left so vague you have a right to suspect that he might have been Him. That earlier Stranger was an implacable gun slinger, eventually revealed to be the ghost of a high-principled sheriff, returned to earth to wreak revenge on the Mammon-worshipping townspeople who had lynched him. Eastwood's earlier ''High Plains Drifter'' (1973), which he also directed and in which he played another character called the Stranger. ''Pale Rider,'' which opens today at the Warner Twin and other theaters, recalls the curious metaphysics of Mr. Eastwood may have been improving over the years, it's also taken all these years for most of us to recognize his very consistent grace and wit as a film maker. This veteran movie icon handles both jobs with such intelligence and facility I'm just now beginning to realize that, though Mr. Eastwood, who not only stars in ''Pale Rider'' but also directed it. He is, of course, the Stranger, played by Mr.
#PALE RIDER CAST DRIVER#
Fishburn Telegrapher George Orrison Stationmaster Whitey Milton Murrill Porter Mike Munsey Dentist/Barber Buddy Van Horn Stage Driver Fritz Manes Stage Rider, Executive Producer Glenn Wright Stage Rider, Costume Designer Terrence Evans Jake Henderson Clint Eastwood Preacher, Director, Producer Barbara Guedel Makeup Bob Herron Stunts Bruce Surtees Cinematographer Charles Gaspar Special Effects Chuck Gasper Special Effects Clint Eastwood Preacher, Director, Producer David Valdes Associate Producer Dennis Shryack Screenwriter Edward C.As Megan pronounces ''Amen,'' the camera cuts to another part of the West, to the figure of a lone horseman astride a fine, pale horse, riding easily but with inexorable purpose toward Carbon Valley. Tolbert Horseman Cliff Happy Horseman Ross Loney Horseman Larry Randles Horseman Mike McGaughy Horseman Jerry Gatlin Horseman Lloyd Nelson Bank Teller Jay K. Griffin Deputy Folke Jack Radosta Deputy Grissom Robert Winley Deputy Kobold Billy Drago Deputy Mather Jeffrey Josephson Deputy Sedge John Dennis Johnston Deputy Tucker Mike Adams Horseman Clay Lilley Horseman Gene Hartline Horseman R.L. McIntyre Jagou Richard Hamilton Jed Blankenship Graham Paul Ev Gossage Chuck La Font Eddie Conway Jeffrey Weissman Teddy Conway Allen Keller Tyson Herman Poppe Ulrik Lindquist Kathleen Wygle Bess Gossage Jim Hitson Biggs Loren Adkins Bossy Tom Friedkin Miner Tom S.A. Dysart Coy LaHood Richard Kiel Club Sydney Penny Megan Wheeler Doug McGrath Spider Conway John Russell Stockburn Keith Dillin Blacksmith Thomas Oglesby Elam Frank Ryan Matt Blankenship Charles Hallahan McGill Marvin J. Clint Eastwood Preacher, Director, Producer Michael Moriarty Hull Barret Carrie Snodgress Sarah Wheeler Chris Penn Josh LaHood Richard A.
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