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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.
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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.
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 ...
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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.
Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood), an ex-lawman turned rancher, is moving a small herd of cattle when a group of nine men on horseback, led by Captain Wilson (Ed B...
Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman.
Jan 6, 2023 · Marshal Dave Bliss arrives just in time to cut Cooper down and save his life. Cooper is still taken to prison, but he’s quickly cleared. Seems the real law caught up with the man who sold him the stolen cattle and killed their previous owner. Short on marshals, Judge Adam Fenton (Pat Hingle) offers Cooper a badge.
Saved from death at the last minute by a passing marshal, Eastwood is taken to the notorious "hanging judge" Hingle, who deputizes him and encourages him to track down the men who had tried to hang him, provided that he brings them back to town for trial.
