---
title: 'Hang ''Em High (1968)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Ted Post'
released: '1968-07-31'
runtime_minutes: 114
genres:
  - 'Western'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/hang-em-high-1968'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061747/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Hang 'Em High (1968)

1968 · 114 min · Western · United States


## Synopsis

Hang 'Em High is a 1968 American 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 federal judge who hires him as a Deputy U.S. Marshal. It was the first production of The Malpaso Company, Eastwood's production company, as well as his first American film with a leading role.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Ted Post](https://cinepixo.com/people/ted-post)
- **Screenplay:** [Leonard Freeman](https://cinepixo.com/people/leonard-freeman), [Mel Goldberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/mel-goldberg)
- **Producer:** [Leonard Freeman](https://cinepixo.com/people/leonard-freeman)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Dominic Frontiere](https://cinepixo.com/people/dominic-frontiere)
- **Director of Photography:** [Richard H. Kline](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-h-kline), [Leonard J. South](https://cinepixo.com/people/leonard-j-south)
- **Editor:** [Antonietta Zita](https://cinepixo.com/people/antonietta-zita)

## Cast

- [Bruce Dern](https://cinepixo.com/people/bruce-dern)
- [James Westerfield](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-westerfield)
- [Ruth White](https://cinepixo.com/people/ruth-white)
- [Charles McGraw](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-mcgraw)
- [L. Q. Jones](https://cinepixo.com/people/l-q-jones)
- [Bert Freed](https://cinepixo.com/people/bert-freed)
- [Inger Stevens](https://cinepixo.com/people/inger-stevens)
- [Ed Begley](https://cinepixo.com/people/ed-begley)
- [James MacArthur](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-macarthur)
- [Ben Johnson](https://cinepixo.com/people/ben-johnson)
- [Bill Zuckert](https://cinepixo.com/people/bill-zuckert)
- [Roy Glenn](https://cinepixo.com/people/roy-glenn)
- [Pat Hingle](https://cinepixo.com/people/pat-hingle)
- [Joel Fluellen](https://cinepixo.com/people/joel-fluellen)
- [Bob Steele](https://cinepixo.com/people/bob-steele)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/hang-em-high-1968
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