High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hang 'Em High is a 1968 Western film directed by Ted Post and produced and co-written by Leonard Freeman. It stars Clint Eastwood as an 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 him, and Pat Hingle as the judge who hires Jed as a US Marshal.