Hang 'Em High (1968)

Original title

Hang 'em High

Directed by

Ted Post

Genre

Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 54m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 858 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An innocent man is lynched and left for dead but survives. He becomes a deputy marshal in a harsh frontier territory where he seeks justice against the men who wronged him.

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What happens

Hang 'Em High is a 1968 American revisionist Western film directed by Ted Post and written by Leonard Freeman and Mel Goldberg. It stars Clint Eastwood as Jed Cooper, an innocent man who survives a lynching; Inger Stevens as a widow who helps him; Ed Begley as the leader of the gang that lynched Cooper; and Pat Hingle as the federal judge who hires him as a Deputy U.S. Marshal. It was the first production of The Malpaso Company, Eastwood's production company, as well as his first American film with a leading role. Hingle portrays a fictional judge who mirrors Judge Isaac C. Parker, labeled the "Hanging Judge" due to the large number of men he sentenced to be executed during his service in the late 1800s as District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas. The film also depicts the dangers of serving as a Deputy U.S. Marshal during that period, as many federal marshals were killed while serving under Parker. The fictional Fort Grant, base for operations for that district judge seat, is also a mirror of the factual Fort Smith, Arkansas, where Judge Parker's court was located. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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