Hang ‘Em High is a 1968 American DeLuxe Color 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. Pat Hingle as the judge who hires him as a U.S. Marshal.
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Hang ‘Em High is a 1968 American DeLuxe Color 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 judge who hires him as a U.S. Marshal. Hingle portrays a fictional judge who mirrors Judge Isaac Parker, labeled the \”Hanging Judge\” due to the large number of men he sentenced to be executed during his service as District Judge of the Western District of Arkansas. The film also depicts the dangers of serving as a federal marshal during that period, as many federal marshals were killed while serving under Parker. The fictional Fort Grant, base for operations for that district judge seat, is also a mirror of the factual Fort Smith, Arkansas, where Judge Parker’s court was located.
It was the first production of The Malpaso Company, Eastwood’s production company. It is also known as the first Western to be shot in Technicolor, and was released in the United States on November 14, 1968. It has a running time of 1 hour and 40 minutes. It also has a rating of 2.5 out of 4.5. It opened in the UK on November 17, 1968, and has been released in Australia on November 18, 1998, and in the U.K. on November 19, 1998. The movie was released on Blu-ray and DVD on November 21, 2008, and on November 22, 2009, the Blu-Ray and DVD versions of the film will be released in North America on November 23, 2009 and November 24, 2009. It will also be available in Europe on November 25, 2010, and the United Kingdom on November 26, 2010. It opens in the US on November 27, 2010 and in Europe the following day on November 28, 2010; the UK release date is November 29, 2011.
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