<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $1.6 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $6.8 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Hang' Em High is a 1968 American DeLuxe Color revisionist Western film directed by Ted Post and written by Leonard Freeman and Mel Goldberg . It stars Clint Eastwood as Jed Cooper, an innocent man who survives a lynching; Inger Stevens as a widow who helps him; Ed Begley as the leader of the gang that lynched Cooper; and Pat Hingle as the judge who hires him as a U.S. Marshal . </P> <P> Hang' Em High was the first production of The Malpaso Company, Eastwood's production company . </P>

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