Pale Rider is a 1985 American Western (Weird West) film produced, directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood. This movie has plot similarities to the classic Western Shane (Shane (film)) (1953 (1953 in film)), including a final scene that shares similarities to the famous ending of Shane. The film also bears similarities to Eastwoods previous Man with No Name character, and his 1973 (1973 in film) western High Plains Drifter. The title is a reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as the rider of a pale horse is Death.

Pale Rider was primarily filmed in the Boulder Mountains and the SNRA (Sawtooth National Recreation Area) in central Idaho, just north of Sun Valley (Sun Valley, Idaho) in late 1984. The opening credits scene featured the jagged Sawtooth Mountains (Sawtooth Range (Idaho)) south of Stanley (Stanley, Idaho). Train-station scenes were filmed in Tuolumne County, California, near Jamestown. Scenes of a more established Gold Rush town (in which Eastwoods character picks up his pistol at a Wells Fargo office) were filmed in the real Gold Rush town of Columbia, also in Tuolumne County, California. The film also featured Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Christopher Penn (Chris Penn), Richard Dysart, Sydney Penny, Richard Kiel, Doug McGrath and John Russell (John Russell_(actor)).

Pale Rider is the only Eastwood film to have clear religious overtones throughout - though several of his other films such as High Plains Drifter also make heavy use of spiritual and supernatural ideas and imagery.