"The Only Tough Part about Having To Film in Idaho Is When You Have To Leave" (Clint Eastwood) Enlightening Eastwood’s Pale Rider With a Statewide Movie Signage Proposal By Jim Banholzer With special lights from Brad Nottingham & Professor Tom Trusky Watching Clint Eastwood movies, particularly his well-crafted Westerns are almost like enrapturing religious experiences for some big screen buffs. Each of his movies project priceless lessons, even when he portrays an antagonist, such as the callous elephant hunter in White Hunter, Black Heart . Astoundingly enough, Clint filmed much of Pale Rider right here in Idaho , with a theme as ageless as the Boulder Mountains . Clint plays a nameless preacher protecting a poor prospecting town from a gang of ruffians sent by a greedy mining corporation, to intrude on their claim. This striking film, the first of Clint’s that he produced, was created in 1984 around Boulder City north of Ketchum and over by the Vienna Mine nea