Behold a Pale Horse

Behold a Pale Horse is a 1964 American drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann, with Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn and Omar Sharif in the leading roles. It is adapted from Emeric Pressburger's 1961 novel Killing a Mouse on Sunday, which drew loosely on the life of the Spanish anarchist guerrilla Francesc Sabaté Llopart.

At the center of the story is Manuel Artiguez, an anti-Franco fighter who has lived in exile in France for roughly twenty years since the end of the Spanish Civil War. Upon hearing that his mother is gravely ill, he secretly crosses back into Spain to visit her. A determined Civil Guard captain who has never abandoned the hunt, however, is waiting, and the pursuit builds toward a final, deadly reckoning. Filmed in black and white, the picture takes its title from the pale horse verse in the Book of Revelation. Its exhibition was banned in Spain under the Franco regime.