Is Pale Rider a copy of Shane?

"Pale Rider" is Producer/Director/Star Clint Eastwood's unofficial remake of George Stevens' "Shane" (1953).
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What is Pale Rider based on?

A reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as the rider of a pale horse is Death.
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Is the preacher in Pale Rider a ghost?

Eastwood revealed in interviews that his character is in fact a ghost. The pattern of bullet holes in Stockburn is the same pattern the Preacher had at the beginning of the movie.
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What is Pale Rider a sequel to?

Pale Rider feels like something of a spiritual sequel to Eastwood's High Plains Drifter, where he plays another mysterious stranger who arrives in a rundown town to seek revenge.
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Was Shane originally black and white?

Shane is a 1953 American Technicolor Western film starring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur and Van Heflin.
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Pale Rider (1985) - Stockburn



Why does Shane wear a 22 necklace?

Television Series. Shane and Rick were best friends when they were kids. Shane was an avid fan of football, playing on his school team as number 22 (which he's reminded of by the necklace he wears).
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What was Shane before the Apocalypse?

Shane was a police officer in Cynthiana, Kentucky, and best friend of the town's deputy sheriff, Rick Grimes. After Rick is shot and put into a coma, and after the dead begin to rise, Shane accompanies Rick's wife, Lori Grimes, and Rick's son, Carl, to a purported safe zone in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Is the High Plains Drifter Marshall Duncan?

The character of Marshal Duncan was played by Buddy Van Horn, Eastwood's long-time stunt double, to suggest that he and the Stranger could be the same person. In an interview, Eastwood said that earlier versions of the script made the Stranger the dead marshal's brother.
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Are High Plains Drifter and Pale Rider connected?

This movie and Pale Rider (1985) open and close with the same location, camera angle, and time of day that bookend each movie. The first time Clint Eastwood directed one of his Westerns. The strange colors make the town of Lago look different throughout the day scenes.
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Is Clint Eastwood a ghost in High Plains Drifter?

He's the ghost of the fallen Marshal returned in a new form to take his just revenge. Others read it as the Stranger simply having a relationship to the Marshal.
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Did the preacher sleep with Sarah in Pale Rider?

One minute he's smiting the evildoers and the next he's passing out sensitive family-counseling-type advice. He won't sleep with Megan but he will sleep with Sarah—just after she's announced she's going to marry Hull Barrett.
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Who was the pretty girl in Pale Rider?

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - While Sydney Penny was only 13 when she starred alongside Clint Eastwood in 1985′s “Pale Rider,” she has vivid memories of her time on set.
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Why did Stockburn recognize the preacher?

Stockburn recognized the reverend from the description that was provided. It matched a man he had personally seen die (almost certainly by his hand) the preceding year. After a miner was gunned down in town by Stockburn and his deputies, it became obvious that they would come the next day to Carbon Canyon.
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Who yells preacher in Pale Rider?

Audio/visual unsynchronised. When Megan is shouting after Preacher at the end of the film, she calls his name twice - the echo following the second time she calls does not match her voice.
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How old is Megan in Pale Rider?

At the age of 13, Penny played Megan Wheeler in the Clint Eastwood western Pale Rider, released on June 26, 1985. For this performance she was awarded a Young Artist Award at the 7th Youth in Film Awards in December 1985.
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Why did John Wayne not like High Plains Drifter?

Eastwood later recalled: "John Wayne once wrote me a letter saying he didn't like High Plains Drifter. He said it wasn't really about the people who pioneered the West. I realized that there's two different generations, and he wouldn't understand what I was doing.
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Was Scott Walker in High Plains Drifter?

High Plains Drifter (1973) - Scott Walker as Bill Borders - IMDb.
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Who got whipped in High Plains Drifter?

As we slowly learn in an onion-peel haze of almost-psychedelic flashbacks and dream sequences, the townsfolk silently watched as three of its scuzziest citizens brutally whipped Lago's marshal, Jim Duncan, to death.
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What horse did Clint Eastwood ride in High Plains Drifter?

Eastwood rode an Andalusian in quite a few of his movies; such as Pale Rider and High Plains Drifter.
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Who was the little short guy in High Plains Drifter?

Billy Curtis' career thrived into the 1970s, notably with solid parts in the Clint Eastwood western High Plains Drifter (1973) and the crime-caper melodrama Little Cigars (1973), in which he had second billing as a diminutive criminal mastermind.
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Are Clint Eastwood and Geoffrey Lewis friends?

Their brotherly rapport is perhaps best exemplified by the pair of bare-knuckle brawler movies they made—Every Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can—in which the two men played best friends battling bikers, cops, and mobsters.
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Was Laurie cheating on Rick?

In the concluding sequence of the episode, Lori admits to Rick that she had an affair with Shane in the belief that her husband was dead.
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Was Shane obsessed with Lori?

His obsession with Lori greatly impacted his emotional state and caused him to pit himself against his former friend. Eventually the tension grew too high between the two, and Shane attempted to kill Rick. Before Shane could act, he was shot and killed by Carl Grimes trying to protect his father.
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How did Shane become a zombie so fast?

Why did Shane turn into a zombie? According to The Walking Dead wiki, Shane killed Randall by breaking his neck, then Randall reanimated. Rick killed Shane when they fought at the end of season two, stabbing him in the heart, and then Shane reanimated.
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