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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 ...
To show the audience that Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood) is a good guy, Cooper rescues a calf from drowning. This ploy was later used in "Tombstone" when Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell), on his first appearance on screen, aids a horse that is being mistreated.
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- Drama, Western
- Ted Post
- 1968-07-31
Jan 6, 2023 · Jed Cooper is a former lawman who is lynched by a mob and becomes a marshal to seek revenge. The film is a Western with Spaghetti influences, starring Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley and others.
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Now you're gonna get married, raise cattle and kids, devil take the rest of the world. Jed Cooper : Maybe. Judge Adam Fenton : You used the law and a badge to heal that scar on your neck.
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
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
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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. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.
