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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 ...
Hang 'Em High: Directed by Ted Post. With Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley, Pat Hingle. When an innocent man barely survives a lynching, he returns as a lawman determined to bring the vigilantes to justice.
- (43K)
- Drama, Western
- Ted Post
- 1968-07-31
Aug 17, 2021 · Mistaken for a rustler and a killer, Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood) is hanged on the spot by crooked lawman Captain Wilson (Ed Begley). But as Wilson and his gang flee the scene, there's one important...
- 3 min
- 209.3K
- MGM
A mysterious drifter survives a lynching then goes back for revenge.
- Ted Post, Richard C. Bennett, Donald C. Klune
- Clint Eastwood
After a gang of men unsuccessfully attempts to lynch him for a cattle rustling crime he did not commit, Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood) is saved by marshal Dave Bliss (Ben Johnson) and judge Adam ...
- (13)
- Ted Post
- PG-13
- Clint Eastwood
When an innocent man barely survives a lynching, he returns as a lawman determined to bring the vigilantes to justice. A band of vigilantes catch Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood) and, incorrectly believing him guilty of cattle rustling and murder, hang him, and leave him for dead. But he doesn't die.
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As was the case with the Italian Westerns, "Hang 'em High" is a revenge story. Eastwood is strung up by a lynching mob, led by Begley. But he's cut down and vows to revenge himself.
