Well that's all I've got to say.In the United States in the year 1949-when the country, having survived the ravages of a second world war, was hurtling and hustling its American way toward the middle of a bloody century-it had been six long years since Raymond Chandler, successor to Dashiell Hammett as the Crime Boss of the hard-boiled boys, had published his last detective novel, The Lady in the Lake (kind of a highfaluting title, that). And remember, you heard them from a poor sinner, got no more cause to lie, 'cause he's going to meet his Maker.

Beer is not much better - it's slower, cheaper. Liquor is the most foul, evil thing in this here world. Waiting to get down into your guts where he can do his devil's work. Waiting for you to take him into your mouth. When you take the devil into your mouth, you're doomed! For he is lying there in wait for you inside that bottle of whiskey. Who raised me up to be a good man and a good Christian, and I was a good Christian, a good husband to my beloved wife, good father to my children, who I leave behind, hoping that they, and all you, will learn this here lesson which I leave you with. You're now looking, for the last time, at the mortal body of Francis Elroy Duffy, born to John and Edna Duffy, good, God-fearing folk.

Made just three years before Dirty Harry, the film marked a turning point for Eastwood, who would soon move into a prolific period of contemporary thrillers. Jones, and the 'Skipper' himself, Alan Hale Jr. Hang 'Em High offers a number of memorable moments and stylistic flourishes, and features a superb supporting cast of Western veterans, including Ben Johnson, Ed Begley, Pat Hingle, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern, L.Q. When he is saved from the noose by a passing lawman, he embarks on a renegade campaign of vengeance against the men who attempted to lynch him.

Eastwood plays an innocent rancher who is mistaken for a cattle rustler and sentenced to hang by an angry mob. After starring in the now-legendary trilogy of spaghetti Westerns for Italian director Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood became a box-office star and imported the style of those classic shoot-'em-ups for this 1967 Western directed by Ted Post, with whom Eastwood had worked during their days on the television series Rawhide.

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