Find the charismatic Clint Eastwood with this superb Hang Them High and Short Poster in fabulous vintage style!
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Description of this Hang ‘Em High Poster
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 marshal.
Hang ‘Em High is the first production from The Malpaso Company, Eastwood’s production company.
Hingle plays a fictional judge who mirrors Judge Isaac Parker, nicknamed the “Hanging Judge” because of the large number of men he sentenced to execution while serving as a district judge for the federal court in the Western District of Arkansas in the late 1800s.
The film also depicts the dangers of being a deputy marshal during this era, as many federal marshals were killed while serving under Parker. The fictional Fort Grant, the base of operations for this district judgeship, also mirrors the factual Fort Smith, Arkansas, where Judge Parker’s courthouse was located.
In Oklahoma Territory in 1889, retired lawman Jed Cooper is surrounded by a group of nine men: Captain Wilson, Reno, Miller, Jenkins, Stone, Maddow, Tommy, Loomis, and Charlie Blackfoot. They demand the receipt for the cattle Cooper is driving. The cattle dealer is a rustler who killed the rancher. Cooper explains that he knew nothing about the murder, but only Jenkins expresses doubt about his guilt. After Reno takes Cooper’s horse and saddle and Miller takes his wallet, the men hang him from a tree and leave.
Soon after, Marshal Dave Bliss rescues the half-dead Cooper and takes him to Fort Grant, where Territorial Judge Adam Fenton determines Cooper is innocent, releases him, and warns him not to seek revenge. As an alternative, Fenton offers Cooper a job as a marshal. Cooper accepts, and Fenton warns him not to kill the lynchers, but to bring them to justice.
While fetching a prisoner, Cooper sees his horse and saddle outside a local saloon. He finds Reno inside and attempts to arrest him, but Reno shoots him, forcing Cooper to shoot him. Jenkins, learning of Reno’s death at the hands of a marshal with a hanging scar, surrenders and provides the names of the other members of the posse. Cooper finds Stone in the town of Red Creek, arrests him, and has him jailed by the local sheriff, Ray Calhoun. Most of the men Cooper is looking for are respected citizens of Red Creek, but Calhoun honors Cooper’s arrest warrants. While en route to arrest the other men, Cooper and Calhoun discover the murder of two men and the theft of their cattle. Cooper forms his own posse to pursue the stolen herd and discovers that the rustlers are Miller and two teenage brothers, Ben and Billy Joe. He saves the rustlers from being lynched, then takes them alone to Fort Grant when the posse abandons him. He frees Ben and Billy Joe from their bonds after they claim that only Miller committed the murders. Miller attacks Cooper after breaking his own bonds, but Cooper overpowers him. Fenton sentences the three cattle rustlers to be hanged, despite Cooper’s defense of the teenagers. Fenton insists that the public will resort to lynching if they see the cattle rustlers go unpunished, thus threatening Oklahoma’s bid for statehood. Sometime later, Calhoun arrives at Fort Grant and offers to pay Cooper for his lost cattle with money from Captain Wilson and the other lynchers. Cooper makes it clear that as long as they are alive, he still intends to arrest them. When the bribe is rejected, Blackfeet and Maddow flee, while Tommy and Loomis remain loyal to Wilson and agree to help him kill Cooper.
During the public hanging of Miller, the brothers, and three other men, the lynchers ambush Cooper in a brothel, seriously wounding him. Cooper survives and is slowly nursed back to health by a widow, Rachel Warren. Rachel reveals that she is searching for the outlaws who killed her husband and raped her. She and Cooper begin an affair; he tells her she may never find her rapists. Cooper attempts to resign, but Judge Fenton tells him the location of Wilson’s ranch, where Wilson, Tommy, and Loomis are hiding. Cooper survives another ambush, stabs Loomis to death, shoots Tommy, and nearly apprehends Wilson before he commits suicide. Back at Fort Grant, Cooper hands over his marshal’s star and asks Fenton to sign a pardon for Jenkins, who is both contrite and gravely ill. The two men debate the merits of territorial justice; Fenton insists he is doing the best he can, cursing the fact that his court is the only one in the territory with little recourse for complainants, and that if Cooper disagrees with him, then the best thing he can do is help Oklahoma become a state (and thus obtain proper courts) by continuing to serve as marshal. Cooper takes back his star in exchange for Jenkins’s release. Fenton then gives Cooper new arrest warrants for Blackfoot and Maddow, telling him that “the law still wants them.”