A pair of Marshals nab an outlaw after a heist goes bad and he's separated from his crew. The outlaw is forced to betray his posse, but with a race on to find the stolen gold, one Marshal turns against the other and an every-man-for-himself bloodbath begins.
Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance who, as a US Marshal, arrests Ballard for the murder of his brother and the theft of $20,000. Ballard seeks to stall McCarty while tracking down evidence that will prove his innocence.
Bir tren, gizli bir görev için Rocky Dağları'ndan geçerek, uzak bir ordu karakoluna doğru yol almaktadır. Ancak trendeki yolcular teker teker öldürülmektedir ve tek umutları, cinayetten yargılanmak üzere nakledilen gizemli John Deakin'dir.
In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottonwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide it's time for a change. That ask for Patch's resignation, but he refuses on the basis that the town, on hiring him, had promised him the job for as long as he wanted it. Afraid for the town's future and even more afraid of the fact that Marshal Patch knows all the town's dark secrets, the city fathers decide that old-style violence is the only way to rid themselves of the unwanted lawman.
Western filmlerine uzun bir ara veren Clint Eastwood, kendi yapım şirketi Malpaso Company ile yaptığı Pale Rider - 1985 ile yeniden at sırtında...Eastwood, western filmlerindeki tipik "ismi olmayan adam" tarzı bir rolle bilinmeyen bir yerlerden çıkıp madencilerin bulunduğu kasabaya geliyor ve kasaba halkını ezen güçlerin karşısına dikiliyor... Kasabanın güçlü kozları, Eastwood'u durdurmak için uzaklardan usta silahşörler kiralayıp getirince işler iyice karışıyor...Pale Rider, ağır ilerleyişine rağmen, ustalıkla kurgulanmış finaliyle, farklı bir Eastwood westerni.