Ep. 173: Pale Rider

After a 70's period where Eastwood said "I've arrived" he followed that up with an even more prolific 80's. If we're being frank in this decade the misses do outnumber the hits but at the same time when he got it right, he got it RIGHT. One of his biggest hits involves him going back to the genre that made him great with 1985's Pale Rider. With this film Eastwood took classic Western motifs and updated them for a modern audience. How does he accomplish this? We find out