BR Pale Rider/The Outlaw Josey Wales/Unforgiven

Triple bill of Westerns directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. In ´Pale Rider´ (1985) a community of gold mining prospectors comes under attack from a gang of marauders, who are after the prospectors´ land. Young Megan Wheeler (Sydney Penny) prays for help, which consequently arrives in the form of The Preacher (Eastwood), a grim, silent stranger who takes up the community´s cause, and sets out to repel the invaders. In ´The Outlaw Josey Wales´ (1976) Eastwood stars in the title role as a peaceful farmer at the time of the American Civil War who becomes a Confederate outlaw in order to avenge his family´s death at the hands of Union guerrillas. His obsession with revenge slowly lifts however, as he picks up various outcasts in the wilderness and attempts to lead them to a safe haven where they can rebuild their lives. Finally, in ´Unforgiven´ (1992), set in 1880s Kansas, ageing gunslinger-turned-farmer William Munny (Eastwood) reluctantly agrees to come out of retirement to collect the bounty on a wanted cowboy with the help of his old friend Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman). The man in question attacked a prostitute in a lawless town lorded over by the corrupt Sheriff Daggett (Gene Hackman), and if Munny and Logan want to catch him they are going to have to deal with Daggett first.