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Hang 'Em High (1968) was a Western - Crime Film directed by Ted Post and produced by Leonard Freeman, Irving L. Leonard and Robert Stambler.

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Clint Eastwood in Hang 'Em High

By Rick29 on Aug 24, 2020 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

Clint Eastwood's first American film after achieving international stardom in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy was predictably a Western. What is surprising is that Eastwood chose to ignore the qualities that made Leone's Western pictures unique. I wouldn't call Hang 'Em High (1968) conventional--it's... Read full article


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[Repeated Line]
The Prophet: They've come to kill the Prophet.


Prisoner: Always uses top grade hemp, Schmidt does. He oils it so it slides read good. Snaps your neck like a dry twig.


Schmidt, the Hangman: You haff last request?
Prisoner: Sure would like me a chaw of tobacco. Whats the matter, hangman; afraid I'll choke to death and you'll lose your hangin' fee?
[Schmidt gives him a chew]
Prisoner: Umm! Put it in my pocket
[Schmidt complies and starts to put the hood over the prisoner's head]
Prisoner: Umm! Umm!
[spits out tobacco juice and then nods]


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Clint Eastwood turned down a part in the big budget film Mackenna's Gold to make this film instead.
The first film produced by Clint Eastwood's Malpaso Company.
Sergio Leone was approached to direct this film, but he turned it down since he was working on C'era una volta il West at the time.
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