Hang 'Em High

The shadow of the cameraman as Jed Cooper walks into the saloon.

When Jed walks into the Sheriff's Office to find the Swede after being hired as a Marshall, a shadow from the camera man is clearly seen following Eastwood on the lower left part of the screen.

The length of Miller's beard seems to vary considerably from shot-to-shot, especially during his fist-fight seen with Cooper on their way back to Fort Grant.

He appears nearly clean-shaven, but once on the ground, his beard is quite heavy.

In contrast, Cooper's facial hair never changes.

When Jedd is hanging on the noose, you can see the film being reversed back and forth to see his feet go back and forth in the same pattern for 10 seconds At the beginning of the movie a piece of camera equipment can be plainly seen lying on the bottom of the gallows.

At the beginning of the movie, Jed has to pick up a calf from the water and carry him on shore.

However, after the calf walks off, we can see that his leggings (which should be wet) are dry.

When Jed is walking outside, just before entering the saloon where he will kill Reno, he has two shadows.

Inside the saloon, he casts two shadows too (but this could be due to two oil lamps).

At the start of the film, when Jed carries the calf out of the river, he places it on the ground and his chaps and pants are soaked from walking out of the water.

He then turns to get on his horse and his chaps and pants are dry.

During the picnic scene in which Rachel tells Jed of her husband's murder and her rape, her hair is alternately wind-blown/neat between shots.

When Jed Cooper is unsuccessfully hanged in the opening scenes, he is seen rocking back and forth after the horse bolts.

In the close-up, Cooper becomes still and the rope stops swinging.

When Jed is rescued from the noose, a white vehicle can be seen flashing quickly between the trees in the distance.

When Marshal Cooper wakes up in the hotel after returning with the three outlaws, you can hear a man and woman cooing and laughing in the background, if you listen carefully, you'll notice it is on a loop and keeps playing over and over again There's a ventilated electrical transformer underneath the gallows at the first hanging.

Near the end of the film when Cooper assaults Captain Wilson's house, it is guarded by a German Shepherd which didn't come into existence until 1894-1899 which is well after the time period of this film.

On the evening before the hanging of the six prisoners, a man suggests that people have been setting up tents in the "boondocks".

"Boondock", derived from the Tagalog bundok is an expression introduced to English by American soldiers in the Philippines during World War II, well after the period of this film.

When Cooper is first lassoed, the rope changes position between shots.

When Cooper is cut down, the short, hanging end of the rope is initially not seen but is visible later.

When Cooper is marched to the 'paddywagon,' one mule is seen hitched behind the wagon.

It then disappears, and when the wagon moves, two mules are seen.

Cooper's position changes when fighting with Miller in the desert.

This is when Miller knocks Cooper to the ground.

Number of prisoners in the wagon varies between close and long shots.

Obvious stunt double when Jedd is being roped at the beginning of the film before and while he is dragged through the river.

After his hanging, and cutting him down, he was placed in the prison wagon.

As he is entering the wagon, he is not wearing any pants, just chaps.

But he is wearing pants when he gets out of the prison wagon.

As Cooper rides out of town at the very end of the film, two telephone poles can be seen between the palm trees in the top right corner of the shot over the credits.

When the Judge goes to visit Jed Cooper in the hotel after he's been shot you can see a painted background in the front doorway that has a shadow cast upon it that reveals the background is a one piece painting.

In the opening scene, Jed wades into a river to rescue a calf.

Moments later when he sees the hanging party on the river bank, he's dry.

The hanging party later drags him through the river and then face first through the dirt.

Despite all that, his clothes are later dry and relatively clean.

Dust in air disappears between shots after posse surrounds Jed Cooper on river bank.

When Jed Cooper is having shackles attached he has a cut and swollen right eye.

After the preacher is shot a close up reveals him to have no injury at all, no bruise cut anything.

In the shot just before the Prophet is killed, at least six men are locked in the prison wagon.

In the shot just after the killing, there are only two men in the wagon.

Cooper indicates to the judge that the jail is a cardboard box.

The cardboard box was not invented until 1890, one year after the time this movie was supposed to be taking place.

When Jed speaks to the Judge when he is being released, the prisoner in the background changes to a dummy in the long shots and then back to a person 3 times.

At the start of the mass hanging, when the townspeople are coming out to watch, one older lady can be seen blue canvas tennis shoes.

After Cooper is cut down and is walking to the prisoner wagon, the rope and knot binding his hands changes.

When Miller (Bruce Dern) is being hanged, the hood is put on as he struggles, and a close-up shot is inserted after the hood goes on and the bottom edge is bunched up close to the rope around his neck under his chin, but immediately before and after that close-up the hood is full length down onto his chest.

When Cooper is pushing through the crowd at the mass hanging a man behind him is wearing glasses with black plastic frames.

Clint Eastwood stars as cattleman Jed Cooper, who is wrongly lynched by a band of hot-headed vigilantes who mistakenly believe he stole his cattle, and murdered the farmer. Though hanged, he somehow survives, and after recovering from his injuries, seeks revenge against the gang responsible.

The movie starts with Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood) being hung by neck after a group of vigilantes found him guilty of cattle rustling and murder. He barely survives.

While crossing a river with his cattle, the former marshal Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood) is surrounded by nine men and accused of killing the rancher that owned the cattle. They leave Cooper hanging on a tree, but he is rescued by Marshal Dave Bliss (Ben Johnson) and brought to Fort Smith to the court of Judge Adam Fenton (Pat Hingle).

An intensely morally conscious Western, Hang 'Em High offered interpretations of violence. When is violence right or wrong?

But Hang Em High is a solid one time watch. This is Eastwood's American Western debut.

This western really taxed me. Eastwood's return to the US after the Man With No Name trilogy wasn't particularly triumphant, apparently.

It took a young Western star to move to Italy and make the best spaghetti westerns ever made and then to return to Hollywood and start his own studio and make this movie. This is what it took to bring Westerns back from the dead by reinventing them.

My mother was from Fort Smith (Fort Grant in this movie) and I grew up there for three years. I've visited Judge Issac Parker's court: "The Hanging Judge.

It was in the mid-90s when I first saw Hang 'Em High. I was new to Eastwood's westerns, having just seen the Leone films for the first time.