High Plains Drifter was def. about a ghost taking his revenge on the town. Although I didnt understand it until I was older, as a kid I loved the Eastwood westerns and just saw it as such.

Pale Rider may have not been a ghost story really but I think the idea that he may have risen from the dead to avenge his death comes to my mind. I saw this as the avenging angel coming to earth in the form of a slain gunfighter to right the wrongs of evil and protect the innocent from it. Just my opinion.

Now that you mention it I believe it did.

In that case I saw bits of it and remember thinking it had an excellent storyline. I also think Donnie Wahlberg was Billy the Kid. Hehe. I'm sure TNT or TBS will replay it sometime. Hope so anyway.

There's no ghostiness until the last shot in which he dissapears. To be a ghost story it should be a story about a ghost, or having to do with ghosts.

Doesn't he magically appear in the opening shot too? It's still a ghost story to me. Along the same lines that the Wraith is a ghost story. He's been wronged and he's back to make it right. "He's dead and he's pissed off."

I think you are correct about Walberg also, the cast was pretty good in it, forgive me I am not good with remembering names, but I think you would enjoy it. It was different. I would swear I saw it at blockbuster, after it was on but I know it was a TNT original.

I'll try to find it as I am a huge fan of this particular sub-genre. Thanks for making me remember it.

He kinda fades in, but that can be attributed to the fact that he was coming up on the horizon, and they did the 'waviness from heat' thing.

Yes, Avenger, Django rocks. The 2nd one isn't as good--but like you said, Franco Nero is the shit whether he's playing a gunfighter, mafioso, or a ninja. He drags a coffin around behind him, in which he keeps a machine gun, and he mows down a town full of Ku Kluxers. One of my favorites. A must see.

Thanks Dr. K. Sounds pretty freakin' awesome. I think I saw a Django boxset at one time.