![]() Refusing to believe Cooper's story, they string him up and hang him. While driving his new herd back home to his own ranch he is stopped by a local posse who believes that he is the man who robbed and murdered the cattleman and his wife. The basic premise is fairly simple - former lawman Jed Cooper buys some cattle from a man he believes is a local rancher. It really is a Hollywood take on the Spaghetti style. ![]() The story may be straight out of a Leone or Corbucci movie, but the script itself is pure Hollywood. Post did a fine job, but his work wasn't as unique or identifiable as Sergio Leone's. ![]() Ted Post had gotten his early experience directing several episodes of Clint's Western TV series, Rawhide, and that experience shows up on screen. The overall direction and photographic style is very much in style with Hollywood Westerns. ![]() And Eastwood's character of Jed Cooper, a man quietely, relentlessly out for revenge is similar to some characters in Spaghetti Westerns.īut then there are several aspects of the movie that are from the traditional Hollywood playbook. Another similarity is the more graphic violence - while there isn't a lot of it, what violence is shown is more graphic than the typical pre-Wild Bunch Hollywood Western. The score, for one thing - the use of guitar and harmonica echoes many of the Westerns made in Italy or Spain, and the big, bold musical themes are occasionally similar as well. It is clearly a Hollywood movie, but there are aspects of the film that draw obvious influences from Sergio Leone and others. ![]() Hang 'Em High is a very well written Western, one that bridged the gap between the Hollywood Westerns and the Spaghetti Westerns coming out of Europe. He actually passed up a couple different movies to make this one - he liked the script that much. Hang 'Em High was Clint Eastwood's first Hollywood movie as leading man. It's not his best film (there are too many truly great Clint Eastwood movies for this to be in that group), but it is an often overlooked film that is, in fact, a gem. This may be Clint Eastwood's most underrated film. ![]()
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