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Hang 'em High is a american film of genre Drama directed by Ted Post released in USA on 31 july 1968 with Clint Eastwood
Hang 'em High (1968)
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Add to a movie listHang 'Em High is a 1968 American Revisionist Western film directed by Ted Post and produced and co-written by Leonard Freeman. 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 him; and Pat Hingle as the judge who hires Jed as a U.S. Marshal.
Hang 'Em High was the first production of the Malpaso Company, Eastwood's production company.
Hingle portrays a fictional judge who mirrors the true-life Judge Isaac Parker, who was labeled the "Hanging Judge"...due to the large number of men he had executed during his service as District Judge.
The film also depicts the dangers of serving as a U.S. Marshal or deputy during that period, as many 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.
Synopsis
The story is set in Oklahoma Territory in 1889. It opens with Jed Cooper driving a small herd of cattle across a stream. When the men in a posse ( Capt. Wilson (Ed Begley), Reno (Joseph Sirola), Miller (Bruce Dern), Jenkins (Bob Steele), Matt Stone (Alan Hale, Jr.), Charlie Blackfoot (Ned Romero), Maddow (Russell Thorson), Tommy (Jonathan Lippe) and Loomis (L. Q. Jones)) surround him and accuse him of rustling the herd, he shows them a receipt for the cattle, but the man he bought them from was a rustler who killed the herd's owners. Cooper explains that he knew nothing about the murder, but only Jenkins expresses doubts about his guilt. After Reno takes Cooper's saddle and Miller takes his wallet, the men hang him from a tree and ride away, leaving him for dead.Actors
Clint Eastwood
(Marshal Jed Cooper)
Inger Stevens
(Rachel Warren)
Ed Begley
(Captain Wilson)
Pat Hingle
(Judge Adam Fenton)
Charles McGraw
(Sheriff Ray Calhoun)
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