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starring: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle, Ed Begley, Ben Johnsondirected by: Ted Post
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304429709
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6304429703
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: April 08, 1992
Running Time: 114 minutes
Sales Rank: 5391
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: August 03, 1968
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Description:
They 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.com:
After 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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Truncated image in both wide and std versions
I love the film but... We get a two sides dvd, labeled "standard" and "widescreen". Standard has 640x480 pixels video, 4:3 aspect ratio, and widescreen 853x480 pixels, 16:9 aspect ratio. This is great, but the problem is both versions are truncated versions of the original. The widescreen is even more truncated ! If you compare two images, Clint has some blue sky above is hat in standard, and you see only half of his hat in widescreen ! I say it this way to makes things clear, but I'm a tech oriented ... Read More
Rating:  - If Only
I reckon I'd really like to have seen this movie directed by Sergio Leone and the score written by Ennio Morricone. As it is, it just doesn't pack the wallop or capture the grandeur of the "spaghetti" westerns and is one of my least favorite westerns. The score alone is enought to make me gag; it could have been written for some cheesy made-for-TV movie or even one of the later Gunsmoke episodes. Clint does a decent enough job but doesn't look nearly as tough without a beard. The script is predictable ... Read More
Rating: - Never Hang The Wrong Man...Without Finishing The Job
After a few years as Rowdy Yates in the TV series "Rawhide", Clint Eastwood managed to attain international superstardom via the trilogy of wacky, violent Italian spaghetti westerns he made with director Sergio Leone in the mid-1960s. And then in 1968, he returned to America to make his own homegrown sagebrush impact. The end result was HANG 'EM HIGH, a significant box office hit upon its release in the late summer of 1968.
Here, Eastwood portrays a former lawman on a cattle drive through the ... Read More
Rating: - Everybody has an off day
This is my least favorite Clint Eastwood movie - and I'm a Clint Eastwood fan. The score alone could put you off. Overly loud and overly dramatic, it broadcasts the sentiment of every scene before the actors can get a line in.
The plot moves so jerky that you begin to suspect someone cut minutes between each scene and story lines seems to just suddenly end with a sagging climax - despite the score blaring out that you're watching a monumental event. I also found the bad guys not nearly threatening ... Read More
Rating: - When you hang a man....
A classic western tale of injustice and revenge, full of iconic western characters. Clint Eastwood portrays a man wrongfully accused of cattle rustling... is hung, and left for dead... The only choice? Become a US Marshal and seek out those who did you wrong.
This movie has one of the best lines in any western..
"When you hang a man you'd better get a look at his face"
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