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Hang 'Em High

  • 1968
  • M
  • 1h 54m
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Hang 'Em High (1968)
When an innocent man barely survives a lynching, he returns as a lawman determined to bring the vigilantes to justice.
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When an innocent man barely survives a lynching, he returns as a lawman determined to bring the vigilantes to justice.When an innocent man barely survives a lynching, he returns as a lawman determined to bring the vigilantes to justice.When an innocent man barely survives a lynching, he returns as a lawman determined to bring the vigilantes to justice.

  • Director
    • Ted Post
  • Writers
    • Leonard Freeman
    • Mel Goldberg
  • Stars
    • Clint Eastwood
    • Inger Stevens
    • Pat Hingle
  • See production, box office & company info
  • IMDb RATING
    7.0/10
    41K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    2,013
    1,115
    • Director
      • Ted Post
    • Writers
      • Leonard Freeman
      • Mel Goldberg
    • Stars
      • Clint Eastwood
      • Inger Stevens
      • Pat Hingle
    • 176User reviews
    • 44Critic reviews
    • 62Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
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    Clint Eastwood in Hang 'Em High (1968)
    Pat Hingle in Hang 'Em High (1968)
    Ed Begley in Hang 'Em High (1968)
    Clint Eastwood in Hang 'Em High (1968)
    Clint Eastwood in Hang 'Em High (1968)
    Clint Eastwood in Hang 'Em High (1968)
    Inger Stevens in Hang 'Em High (1968)
    Clint Eastwood and Pat Hingle in Hang 'Em High (1968)
    Clint Eastwood, Ed Begley, Arlene Golonka, Pat Hingle, and Inger Stevens in Hang 'Em High (1968)
    Bruce Dern, Richard Gates, James MacArthur, Michael O'Sullivan, Bruce Scott, and James Westerfield in Hang 'Em High (1968)
    Arlene Golonka in Hang 'Em High (1968)
    Clint Eastwood in Hang 'Em High (1968)

    Top cast

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    Clint Eastwood
    Clint Eastwood
    • Marshal Jed Cooper
    Inger Stevens
    Inger Stevens
    • Rachel Warren
    Pat Hingle
    Pat Hingle
    • Judge Fenton
    Ed Begley
    Ed Begley
    • Captain Wilson
    Ben Johnson
    Ben Johnson
    • Marshal Dave Bliss
    Charles McGraw
    Charles McGraw
    • Sheriff Ray Calhoun
    Ruth White
    Ruth White
    • Madame 'Peaches' Sophie
    Bruce Dern
    Bruce Dern
    • Miller
    Alan Hale Jr.
    Alan Hale Jr.
    • Matt Stone
    Arlene Golonka
    Arlene Golonka
    • Jennifer
    James Westerfield
    James Westerfield
    • Prisoner
    Dennis Hopper
    Dennis Hopper
    • The Prophet
    L.Q. Jones
    L.Q. Jones
    • Loomis
    Michael O'Sullivan
    Michael O'Sullivan
    • Francis Elroy Duffy
    Joseph Sirola
    Joseph Sirola
    • Reno
    James MacArthur
    James MacArthur
    • The Preacher
    Bob Steele
    Bob Steele
    • Jenkins
    Bert Freed
    Bert Freed
    • Schmidt
    • Director
      • Ted Post
    • Writers
      • Leonard Freeman
      • Mel Goldberg
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Inger Stevens had never heard of Clint Eastwood before she was cast. Once they met she began to like him very much and they ended up having an affair during filming. When the film was finished, Stevens told director Ted Post: "Anytime you do a picture with Clint and there's a part in it, call me."
    • Goofs
      When Cooper is pushing through the crowd at the mass hanging a man behind him is wearing glasses with black plastic frames.
    • Quotes

      Jed Cooper: You don't remember me, do you?

      Reno, Cooper Hanging Party: No.

      Jed Cooper: [showing his hanging scar] When you hang a man, you better look at him.

    • Alternate versions
      As with many westerns at the time the UK cinema version was cut by the BBFC to reduce facial closeups during the opening lynching and to edit Cooper's fight with Miller. Later video/DVD releases were intact.
    • Connections
      Featured in Legends of the West (1992)
    • Soundtracks
      Shall We Gather at the River?
      (uncredited)

      By Robert Lowry

      Sung by crowd before mass hanging

    User reviews176

    Review
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    Featured review
    Not as great as the Leone westerns but Eastwood's performance is good. Pat Hingle is even better and just about steals the movie.
    'Hang 'Em High' was Clint Eastwood's first American Western after working on Sergio Leone's groundbreaking Dollars "trilogy". Some people describe it as an American attempt at a spaghetti western, but I really don't see it. Yes, it features a revenge theme, common to many spaghetti westerns, and it has a few moments of brutality and moral ambiguity, but really it's firmly in the tradition of the Hollywood Western. Leone was supposedly asked to direct but chose to make his masterpiece 'Once Upon A Time In The West' instead. Ted Post who directed 'Rawhide', the TV series which made Eastwood a star of the small screen, directed instead (Post and Eastwood would later be reunited with 'Magnum Force'). 'Hang 'Em High' is nowhere near as good as Leone's movies but it's still better than many would lead you to believe. Eastwood gives a good performance and the movie is jam packed with character actors and familiar faces. It starts off brilliantly with Eastwood being accused of stealing cattle by a posse (led by veteran Ed Begley, and including Bruce Dern and Peckinpah regular L.Q. Jones), and then hanged! Luckily Eastwood is saved by a wandering Marshall (Ben Johnson) and taken to prison. The local judge (Pat Hingle) frees Eastwood and offers him a job as a lawman, which he takes, using it as an opportunity to track down the hanging party who nearly killed him. Eastwood is good, but Pat Hingle is even better, giving a terrific performance of quite a complex character. Dern plays one of his patented scumbag roles, and Inger Stevens plays a local woman with a past who becomes Eastwood's love interest. I already mentioned legendary Western actors L.Q. Jones and Ben Johnson. Unfortunately Johnson doesn't get much screen time, but he does have a memorable scene with Dennis Hopper, who play a crazed character known as The Prophet. If you'd like to see more of these two actors together check out the rarely seen counter-culture Western 'Kid Blue' made in the early 1970s. I could go on and on about the supporting cast but I won't. Suffice it to say that film buffs will get lots of kicks watching this movie. 'Hang 'Em High' may not be close to Eastwood's best work, but it's still worth watching, for Pat Hingle if nothing else.
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    • Feb 26, 2004

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    • Release date
      • July 31, 1968 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Obesite ga bez milosti
    • Filming locations
      • Quartzsite, Arizona, USA
    • Production companies
      • Leonard Freeman Production
      • The Malpaso Company
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $1,600,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $11,000,000
    • Gross worldwide
      • $11,000,000
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 54 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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