{"id":34316,"date":"2023-10-29T06:56:28","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T10:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34316"},"modified":"2023-10-29T06:56:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T10:56:28","slug":"hang-em-high-1968-starring-clint-eastwood-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34316","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hang &#8216;Em High&#8221; (1968) starring Clint Eastwood \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z102923zview_hengemhigh.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"744\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hang &#8216;Em High <\/strong><\/em>(1968)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Ted Post<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by: \u00a0<strong>Leonard Freeman, Mel Goldberg<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring: <strong>Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle, Ed Begley, Ben Johnson, Charles McGraw, Ruth White, Bruce Dern, Alan Hale Jr., Arlene Golonka, James Westerfield, Dennis Hopper, L.Q. Jones, Joseph Sirola, James MacArthur, Bert Freed, Mark Lenard <\/strong>and <strong>Bob Steele.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>The hanging was the best show in town. But they made two mistakes. They hung the wrong man and they didn&#8217;t finish the job.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Story:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jed Cooper (Eastwood), a former lawman, is found with a dead man&#8217;s cattle.\u00a0 Despite a bill of sale, the six vigilantes don&#8217;t believe Cooper.\u00a0 The put a noose around his neck, hang him and ride off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marshall Dave Bliss (Johnson) saw what was happening from a distance.\u00a0 He rides in and cuts Cooper down.\u00a0 Although he&#8217;ll carry a scar on his neck for the rest of his life, Cooper will live.\u00a0 Marshall Bliss turns Cooper over to Hanging Judge Fenton (Hingle).\u00a0 Fenton checks out Cooper&#8217;s story.\u00a0 When he finds it to be true, he offers Cooper a job as a Marshall.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper accepts.\u00a0 His first order of business will be to track down the men that tried to hang him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Hang &#8216;Em High<\/em> was Clint Eastwood&#8217;s first starring role in a Hollywood movie.\u00a0 It was also the first film Eastwood produced through his Malpaso production company.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ted Post was handpicked to direct <em>Hang &#8216;Em High<\/em> by Clint Eastwood. Post had directed 24 episodes of <em>Rawhide<\/em> and the two had a good relationship.\u00a0 Post and Eastwood would reteam for <em>Magnum Force<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The supporting cast is made up of well known character actors (Pat Hingle, Ed Begley, Charles McGraw, Ruth White, Bruce Dern, Alan Hale Jr., Arlene Golonka, James Westerfield, Dennis Hopper, Joseph Sirola, James MacArthur, Bert Freed and Mark Lenard) and former cowboy stars (Ben Johnson, Alan Hale, Jr., L.Q. Jones and Bob Steele).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although it was sometimes advertised with the tagline: <em>A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good the Bad and the Ugly<\/em>&#8230;NOW The Man With No Name is back!, Eastwood&#8217;s character in <em>Hang &#8216;Em High<\/em> is NOT The Man With No Name.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z102923zview_hengemhigh2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hang &#8216;Em High (1968) Director:\u00a0 Ted Post Screenplay by: \u00a0Leonard Freeman, Mel Goldberg Starring: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34331,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34316\/revisions\/34331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}