#21 Hang ‘Em High

January 21, 2021
Hang ‘Em High (1968) ****
TCM
Free
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One very nice thing indeed about having actors for parents is how sometimes movies or TV shows they were in just sort of pop up out of nowhere. A couple of weeks ago, Hang ‘Em High and The Trouble With Girls popped up on the TCM app, both with my father in them, what a treat!

The movie is about a man who gets lynched for cattle rustling, when he actually had bought the cattle from the real rustler and murderer. They weren’t very good at lynching, because Clint and his iron neck didn’t die, but was cut down and rescued, sworn in as Marshall, and then went off in his vengeance to catch all those bad men. 

I have seen Hang ‘Em High many times, but not for quite a while and had forgotten a great deal of it. Not my dad’s part, though! He plays the first sheriff that Clint Eastwood comes across after becoming a Marshall, when he goes to pick up the Swede. he is very good, and does not have nearly a big enough part, not in my estimation.

The movie is quite a good western in the categories of being a 1960’s Clint Eastwood western made in America, meaning that it is not exactly a classic, but it gets 4 stars from me, and that is that!