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A [[The Gunslinger|gunslinging]] [[The Drifter|drifter]] befriends a [[Determined Homesteader|determined frontier family]] and is especially idolized by their child. Their livelihood is threatened by a bigger, more powerful company that seeks to drive them off their land by either force and intimidation, or simply buying them out. [[The Drifter]] fights for the family and defeats the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] and his [[Mook|mooks]], but ultimately leaves his friends behind and continues a life of drifting.
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The film is notable for being one of the very few Eastwood films to have strong religious and supernatural overtones. Many of its elements are derived from or similar to earlier Eastwood Westerns, namely [[The Man With No Name]] trilogy and [[High Plains Drifter]]
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* [[As the Good Book Says...]]
* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Stockburn, the marshal
* [[Back
* [[Badass Preacher]]
* [[Better
* [[The Brute]]: Club (played by Richard Kiel) is brought in to intimidate Preacher, but falls to a well-aimed [[Groin Attack]].
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Bison model
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* [[Defeat Means Friendship]] / [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|1=Club ends up helping the Preacher in one of the last fights of the film, grabbing LaHood's son as he's about to shoot Preacher [[In the Back]].}}
* [[Determined Homesteader|Determined]] [[Determined Widow|Prospector]] [[Determined Homesteader's Children|Family]]
* [[Did They or Didn't They?]]: Preacher and Sarah.
* [[The Dragon]]: Stockburn
* [[The Drifter]]
* [[Duel to
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: Preacher. Nobody bothers to ask for his real name throughout the whole film.
* [[Groin Attack]]: Apparently the Preacher's not above this...
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* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Hey look! It's [[James Bond|Jaws]]!
* [[Hired Guns]]
* [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]: See [[Title Drop]].
* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: {{spoiler|Narrowly averted.}}
* [[It's All My Fault]]: When Preacher suddenly disappears, Megan is convinced that he'd left because of their fight earlier.
* [[It's Personal]]: Implied, between Stockburn and the Preacher
* [[Kick the Dog]]: The thugs [[Anvilicious|shoot a girl's pet puppy]] in the opening scene. Later on, Stockburn's gang {{spoiler|kills one of the miners}}
* [[Love Confession]]
* [[Love Triangle]]: Both Megan and her mother have romantic interest in the Preacher, oddly enough. But [[Celibate Hero|he doesn't seem to return the feelings for either of them]].
** {{spoiler|He was discrete with Sarah. He shut the door of the stable and put the light out.}}
** Of course, being that he's probably a ghost, it's possible that he can't return their feelings, physically or otherwise.
* [[Mysterious Past]]
* [[Never Got to Say Goodbye]]: Megan to Preacher at the end
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* [[No Name Given]]
* [[Plucky Girl]]: Megan
* [[Precocious Crush]]: Megan to Preacher.
* [[Prospector]]
* [[Rape, Pillage and Burn]]: The raping is absent, but pillaging and burning appear in the beginning of the film, courtesy of the [[Big Bad]]'s [[Mook|mooks]].
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* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]: Done all the time by Preacher to imply his supernatural nature.
* [[Stock Quotes]]: See [[Title Drop]]
* [[Took a Level
* [[Title Drop]]: "[[As the Good Book Says...|I looked and there before me was a pale horse. Its rider was named Death.]]"
* [[The Un-Reveal]]
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Index of Film Westerns]]▼
[[Category:Films of the 1980s]]
[[Category:Pale Rider]]
[[Category:Film]]
[[Category:Clint Eastwood]]
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