S8.E6

Hostage for Hanging

Name: Hostage for Hanging
Genre: Western
Released: 1965-10-19
Duration: 1 h
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Clint Eastwood, John Ireland, Paul Brinegar

Episode aired Oct 19, 1965
TV-PG
1h

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

110

YOUR RATING

Western

Rowdy makes a deal to buy horses from the Gufflers. When he finds the horses are poor quality and wants his money back, Ma Guffler wants her money. She takes Rowdy hostage threatening to han... Read allRowdy makes a deal to buy horses from the Gufflers. When he finds the horses are poor quality and wants his money back, Ma Guffler wants her money. She takes Rowdy hostage threatening to hang him at sundown if she doesn't receive $3,000.Rowdy makes a deal to buy horses from the Gufflers. When he finds the horses are poor quality and wants his money back, Ma Guffler wants her money. She takes Rowdy hostage threatening to hang him at sundown if she doesn't receive $3,000.

Director
- Herman Hoffman
Writers
- Walter Black
- Charles Marquis Warren
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

110

YOUR RATING

Director
- Herman Hoffman
Writers
- Walter Black
- Charles Marquis Warren
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Quotes
Jed Colby: [to Max] You, you make me itchy just looking at you. Now get up in your saddle and lead the way.

Soundtracks
Rawhide Theme
Created and Composed by Dimitri Tiomkin
Lyrics by Ned Washington
Recorded by Frankie Laine

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Review

Featured review

6/10

Guffler Family Values

The sheer outrageousness of the characters of the Guffler family will amuse you even as you wonder why Clint Eastwood is dealing with them in the first place.

Trail boss Eastwood is at their spread buying horses for the drive's reymuda and they try to stick him with some fleabags so he says no sale and wants a $100.00. Ma Guffler played by Mercedes McCambridge decides they'll hold Eastwood for ransom of the $3000.00 that he was supposed to pay them.

This is truly ludicrous, did McCambridge her Oxford Rhodes Scholar sons Warren Oates, Hal Baylor, and Robert Blake really think that they would get away with it. Either the drovers would get them or the law would sooner or later. Of course the men are kind of getting ideas about Sharon Farrell who lives with them.

As it is when money can't be raised, John Ireland plans a military style rescue of Eastwood.

The story is ludicrous, but the acting and the characters are quite engaging in an interesting sort of way.