Hang 'em High

Hang 'em High

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  • Genre: Western
  • Release Date: 1968-04-12
  • Runtime: 114 minutes
  • : 6.8
  • Production Company: United Artists
  • Production Country: United States of America
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6.8
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Description

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.

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  • r96sk

    8
    By r96sk
    'Hang ’em High' is entertaining stuff. I personally think the first half is much stronger than the second half, which loses its way a tad and ends up concluding in a perfectly good but not as great way as what I had wanted - based on the impressive opening hour or so. Clint Eastwood, though, is excellent from start-to-finish. I undoubtedly enjoyed his performance, which is great to see follow on from the major highs of the Dollars trilogy. Pat Hingle is also a positive performer, he and Eastwood share one terrific scene in particular.

  • CinemaSerf

    7
    By CinemaSerf
    When "Cooper" (Clint Eastwood) gets caught up in a case of mistaken identity, he is all but lynched by a group of citizens convinced he has committed murder. Luckily for him, he is snatched from the jaws of death by deputy "Bliss" (Ben Johnson) who takes him in for a more legitimate hanging. Fortune continues to shine on "Cooper" though, when local judge "Fenton" (Pat Hingle) finds his story checks out and offers him a job with a badge of his own. This isn't to take the law into his own hands - he is expected to bring the men who tried to kill him in for due process. He might be willing enough, but are they? Meantime, he finds that his rekindled law-man occupation sees him involved in other dangerous business, and after one especially close near-miss, he finds himself falling for the nagging "Rachel" (Inger Stevens) who has her own fairly harrowing story to relate. On the face of it, this is just another routine revenge western, but Eastwood and Hingle deliver a bit more than that as they try to apply some elements of the rule of law to a society that is still pretty much living a survival of the fittest (or fastest) existence. We get to know a little more of some of the vigilantes and realise that perhaps they weren't quite as brutal as initially thought - some attempt is made to give the characters some personality. The production isn't the best though - I'm sure I saw a car in shot at one point, and the studio sets are all very familiar, but Eastwood imbues his persona with a degree of his less-is-more style of decency as we head to a denouement that's predicable in outcome, but not so much in execution.

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