![]() The “Hanging Circus” scene, which makes public corporal punishment come across as a viable entertainment alternative to the County Fair.Pat Hingle as the frustrated, hard-nosed Judge Fenton.In addition, Judge Fenton is played with surprising nuance by Hingle his struggle to bring justice to the vast, untamed Oklahoma Territory makes for an interesting contrast with Walter Brennan’s more humorously sadistic Judge Roy Bean in The Westerner (1940). In reality, Hang ‘Em High is actually an enjoyable revenge tale, one which manages to comment on the public thirst for bloody spectacle without coming to any neat-and-tidy conclusions. I suspect, however, that the film suffers primarily from guilt-by-comparison, since it was made immediately after Sergio Leone’s string of brilliant “Man With No Name” westerns. Peary doesn’t seem to like this western much, calling it “derivative”, “stilted”, and “cliche-ridden”. When he survives, Cooper becomes a marshal for the local judge (Pat Hingle), and vows to seek revenge on the men who nearly killed him. Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood), wrongly accused of cattle rustling, is hung by a group of vigilantes and left to die. “How many men are you going to have to hang to heal your scar?” ![]()
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