Amazon.com video review:
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. The digital video disc
offers standard and widescreen formats and a remastered soundtrack.
--Jeff Shannon
Amazon.com video review:
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
