Hang ’em High 1968 123movies

Watch: Hang ’em High 1968 123movies, Full Movie Online – A band of vigilantes catch Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood) and, incorrectly believing him guilty of cattle rustling and murder, hang him, and leave him for dead. But he doesn’t die. He returns to his former profession of lawman to hunt down his lynchers and bring them to justice..
Plot: Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he’s caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.
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Ratings:

	7.0/10 Votes: 39,845
	92% | RottenTomatoes
	62/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 605 Popularity: 34.477 | TMDB

Reviews:

‘Hang ’em High’ is entertaining stuff.

I personally think the first half is much stronger than the second half, which loses its way a tad and ends up concluding in a perfectly good but not as great way as what I had wanted – based on the impressive opening hour or so.

Clint Eastwood, though, is excellent from start-to-finish. I undoubtedly enjoyed his performance, which is great to see follow on from the major highs of the Dollars trilogy. Pat Hingle is also a positive performer, he and Eastwood share one terrific scene in particular.

We all have our ghosts, Marshal.

Hang ‘Em High is directed by ted Post and written by Leonard Freeman and Mel Goldberg. It stars Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle, Ed Begley, Ben Johnson, Charles McGraw, Ruth White and Bruce Dern. Music is by Dominic Frontiere and cinematography is shared by Richard H. Kline and Leonard J. South.

An innocent man survives a lynching and returns as a lawman and sets about bringing the vigilantes to justice.

After making a name in Leone’s Dollars Trilogy, Eastwood returned to America and began cementing his name in the genre of film that would come to define him. Though very much an American Western, this does have Spaghetti Western tonal splinters. Story is derivative and safe, however the characterisations are not and are pungent enough to warrant viewing investment.

Unfortunately director Ted Post often lets the pace sag to unbearable levels – especially in the last third of film, it’s a shame that the mooted Robert Aldrich didn’t get the gig. There simply is not enough on the page to sustain the near two hour running time, with the finale proving to be a rather flat experience. The liberal stance on the death penalty is a touch heavy handed, but not so as to kill the picture since the thought process of the complexities of justice holds high interest values. Then of course there is Eastwood to lure one in.

He’s not the best actor in the film, though the amorality of character he plays makes him the fascinating centre piece. Hingle steals the acting honours as the stoically forthright Judge Fenton, while Stevens also shines as Rachael Warren, a character who like Eastwood’s Jed Cooper has an obsessional motive for capturing criminals in her heart. All told the perfs across the board are pitched right and good value.

I’m not sure if the fact two cinematographers were used was a job for mates scenario? Whatever though, for there’s nice work here, the New Mexico locations pleasing and at the same time mood compliant for the harsher edges of the story. Frontiers’s music is interesting, full of ebullience – sometimes overbearing, it strangely at times sounds familiar to some of Herrmann’s compositions in the fantasy genre…

Hang ‘Em High is an important entry in the Western genre library, though neither great or bad, it’s still a must see for genre enthusiasts. 7/10

Hang ‘Em Better Next Time
It was in the mid-90s when I first saw Hang ‘Em High. I was new to Eastwood’s westerns, having just seen the Leone films for the first time. All I knew of this one was a scene that I had seen in television commercials, where Clint says the movie’s most famous line “When you hang a man you better look at him.” So needless to say I was excited. The movie starts off well enough as innocent Eastwood is lynched by a group of men for cattle rustling, only he survives. From here you have a plot that Anthony Mann or Sergio Leone would have made into a masterpiece.

Instead, what you get is a slow meandering film that fixates on and preaches about law & order, the dangers of vigilantism, etc. These kinds of plots were commonplace in virtually every western TV show from the 1950s and 60s. Hang ‘Em High offers nothing new to a discussion that was already old by the time the film came out. Although I came into the movie predisposed to root for Clint, after awhile his character’s lack of motivation at wanting revenge made me wish the lynch mob had done a better job and spared us an unfulfilling two hours.

Like I said I first saw it in the 90s and was disappointed. I just recently rewatched it for the first time since then, hoping to see it with fresh eyes and enjoy it more. But I found myself feeling the same sense of disappointment and boredom I did all those years ago. As a western drama it’s watchable and competently put together. As a western action revenge movie it’s weak and should be avoided.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 54 min (114 min)
Budget 1800000
Revenue 6800000
Status Released
Rated M
Genre Drama, Western
Director Ted Post
Writer Leonard Freeman, Mel Goldberg
Actors Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory DeLuxe, USA (uncredited) (color)
Film Length 3,130 m (Sweden)
Negative Format eastman Color, Negative Film, 50T, Type 5251 (spherical), 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format Eastman Color Print film, Type 5385 (spherica), 35 mm