Clint Eastwood
Marshal Jed Cooper
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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.
- (44K)
- Drama, Western
- Ted Post
- 1968-07-31
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. He returns to his former profession of lawman to hunt down his lynchers and bring them to justice.
Hang ‘Em High: plot summary, featured cast, reviews, articles, photos, and videos. This Western film follows a former lawman who survives a lynching after being wrongfully accused of cattle rustling and theft.
In Oklahoma in 1889 rancher Jed Cooper is hanged and left for dead by a nine-man lynch mob who believe him guilty of murder and cattle-rustling. After being saved by a passerby, Jed is exonerated and then appointed deputy marshal by Judge Adam Fenton.
- Ted Post, Richard C. Bennett, Donald C. Klune
- Clint Eastwood
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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)
- Western
- PG-13
Hang ’em High. Action. 114 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 1968. Roger Ebert. August 5, 1968. 2 min read. In a way, it’s a relief that Clint Eastwood is back home again. In “A Fistful of Dollars” and its two sequels, he shot apart just about every low-budget location in Spain, southern Italy and Sicily.
