Hang 'Em High

Hang 'Em High
Theatrical release poster by Sandy Kossin
Directed by	Ted Post
Written by	Leonard Freeman Mel Goldberg
Produced by	Leonard Freeman
Starring	Clint Eastwood Inger Stevens Ed Begley Pat Hingle
Cinematography	Richard H. Kline Leonard J. South
Edited by	Gene Fowler Jr.
Music by	Dominic Frontiere
Production companies	Leonard Freeman Productions The Malpaso Company
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	July 31, 1968 (1968-07-31)
Running time	114 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1.6 million[1][2]
Box office	$10.8 million

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.

Hang 'Em High was the first production of The Malpaso Company, Eastwood's production company. It was processed in DeLuxe Color.

Hingle portrays a fictional judge who mirrors Judge Isaac C. Parker, labeled the "Hanging Judge" due to the large number of men he sentenced to be executed during his service in the late 1800s as District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas.

The film also depicts the dangers of serving as a Deputy U.S. Marshal during that period, as many federal marshals were killed while serving under Parker. The fictional Fort Grant, base for operations for that district judge seat, is also a mirror of the factual Fort Smith, Arkansas, where Judge Parker's court was located.