A small gold mining camp is terrorised by a ruthless land owner wanting to take their land. Clint Eastwood arrives riding a pale horse just as a young girl is praying to God to help the miners. He is revealed to be a preacher with mysterious and possible otherworldly origins who teams up with the miners to defeat the land owner and the corrupt sheriff.
This movie contains 2 potentially triggering events.
The bad guys come rampaging into the miners' camp, destroying tents and supplies. They also kill anything they can, including a few miners, the cow (which is shown lying down, mooing in distress, with blood on its nose), and the teen girl's Jack Russell terrier (which yelps) . But the scene where she is crying and picks the dog up is laughable because it is *very* obviously a stuffed dog.
Nobody should kill animals for a stupid ass movie. Whoever directed “pale rider “ should not have allowed animals to be killed . Whoever killed those animals needed to go to jail and rot there. Evil motherfuckers.