Review – Hang 'Em High

The parts of this movie when Clint Eastwood is shooting people are solid stuff. The rest of the picture is somewhat uneven. Eastwood plays a would-be rancher lynched by a group of hotheads who mistakenly think he’s a cattle rustler. Of course he survives, and after a series of misadventures he’s deputized as a marshal, cloaked by the law in his search for his would-be killers. Along the way the picture manages to make a good point or two about the nature of justice and vengeance. Though this isn’t the best “spaghetti western” Eastwood ever made, it’s a reasonably good effort. Mildly amusing