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Release Date: 1997-11-19
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| Intriguing Early Eastwood EffortA note of trivia: Ed Begley Sr., Alan Hale Jr., Bruce Dern, father of Laura Dern, and James MacArthur, son of Helen Hayes are in the film's illustrious cast. I don't believe this film got big play by the critics on initial release probably because they were late comers to the Sergio Leone trilogy. Taken in context with the trajectory that Clint Eastwood's career has taken it's very consistent with themes explored in his latter works. Here frontier justice, vigilanteism, and the death penalty are examined. Eastwood plays an innocent rancher who is hung for murder by a bloodthirsty posse. Rescued by the sheriff from certain death he is given a chance to avenge his hanging by a sympathetic judge by deputizing him and telling him to bring his tormentors in alive. Eastwood's Jeb Cooper is not the shoot-and-ask-questions-later Man With No Name of the Leone films. He has a certain ambivalence about his task at hand and he feels conflicted about what he has to do. Though not on the level of the Leone films there's an interesting director at the helm in Ted Post. Post directed Eastwood in "Magnum Force" that explored the vigilante theme and later "Go Tell the Spartans" with Burt Lancaster about the early days of the Vietnam conflict. There's a certain obscurity to "Hang 'Em High" but should be viewed in context of the Eastwood canon of impressive work.
CLINT EASTWOOD AT HIS BEST!!!!THIS IS A WONDERFUL MOVIE FOR ANYONE WHO HAVE NEVER SEEN IT , IT IS WORTH THE MONEY TO BUY IT . IT IS WONDERFUL.
Better as a study than as a filmThe Bottom Line:
The Western genre is inextricably linked to the nature of justice and in this regard Hang 'Em High, the story of a wrongfully-lynched man who survives and seeks to avenge the crime of his hanging, is a complete success; however, in terms of sheer enjoyment it falls considerably behind movies like The Good the Bad and the Ugly or The Outlaw Josey Wales, so if you don't dig the justice themes and just want more action look elsewhere.
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Typical EastwoodThis was a typical Clint Eastwood film. I liked it better than his spaghetti westerns.
Best Eastwood WesternHang 'em High is the best Eastwood Western in my opinion. He get's revenage on his enemies one by one. After being hanged and left for dead he comes back and each one of the men that was involved in his hanging get picked off one by one. If you have not seen this movie then you are missing out on a good one. The story line is great and of course Clint Eastwood never fails to give us his best.
DescriptionThey riddled him with bullets. They strung him up. They left him to die. But they made two fatal mistakes: they hanged the wrong man...and they didn't finish the job. In his first American-made western, Clint Eastwood indelibly carves his niche as the quintessential tough guycool-headed, iron-willed and unrelenting in his pursuit of revenge. Oklahoma, 1873. Jed Cooper (Eastwood), mistaken for a rustler and killer, is lynched on the spot by crooked lawman Captain Wilson (Ed Begley) and a rampaging band of vigilantes. But as Wilson and his gang flee the scene, there's one very important detail they've overlooked: Cooper is still alive! Out for justiceand vengeanceCooper takes on the job of deputy marshal...and, one by one, tracks down the nine men who "done him wrong."
Amazon.comAfter starring in the now-legendary trilogy of spaghetti Westerns for Italian director Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood became a box-office star and imported the style of those classic shoot-'em-ups for this 1967 Western directed by Ted Post, with whom Eastwood had worked during their days on the television series Rawhide. Eastwood plays an innocent rancher who is mistaken for a cattle rustler and sentenced to hang by an angry mob. When he is saved from the noose by a passing lawman, he embarks on a renegade campaign of vengeance against the men who attempted to lynch him. Hang 'Em High offers a number of memorable moments and stylistic flourishes, and features a superb supporting cast of Western veterans, including Ben Johnson, Ed Begley, Pat Hingle, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern, L.Q. Jones, and the "Skipper" himself, Alan Hale Jr. Made just three years before Dirty Harry, the film marked a turning point for Eastwood, who would soon move into a prolific period of contemporary thrillers. --Jeff Shannon
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