HANG 'EM HIGH

Clint Eastwood has made dozens of Westerns as well as cops and other movies. I remember him when he played the character Rowdy Yates in the old TV series Rawhide. This series ran from 1959 to 1966 and Eastwood was a regular performer on this never-ending cattle drive across the Old West.

This was Eastwood's first steady job in acting and his career continued on the big screen to make him the acting legend he is now. Hang 'em High (PG-13) being just one of the many Westerns he starred in, and a rare one where he actually has a name - Jed Cooper.

In this 1968 movie, he starts out being hanged by a lynch mob and left for dead on the rope. But he's not dead, and with help, recovers. Then he sets out to get legal revenge on the bad guys who lynched him as well as rounding up other bad guys in his territory as a US Marshal. Wearing the equestrian clothing we're accustomed to seeing him in in all his Westerns, he's a marshal not to be dealt with lightly. He's tough and gravely-voiced, ready to make sure others do right or pay the price for not doing it.

Actors such as Inger Stevens, Ed Begley, Pat Hingle, Bruce Dern, Alan Hale, JR, and Dennis Hopper join the cast, as well as other great and familiar names, tomake this a film full of all the Western drama you'd expect from one starring Clint Eastwood.