dukeakasmudge The Hanged Man was a movie pilot for a TV series that was never picked up? You learn something new every day.Also at the start of the movie, it says this movie was produced by Bing Crosby Productions.I never knew Bing Crosby had his own production company so I looked it up & never realized his company produced so many TV shows & movies.Interesting.As for The Hanged Man...... Was this suppose to just be a Western or was there more to it? It seemed like there was a meaning behind the movie (If you get a 2nd chance at life, take it & make the most of it, Miracles are just second chances, etc, etc, etc) or am I just reading way too much into it? There were a few scenes that made me think & seemed like they had some type of meaning to them.I just can't figure it out. The Hanged Man is worth taking a look at least once if you're a Western fan.If you're not then I'll leave it up to you.It is an interesting movie.I LOVED that fiery ending

fredcdobbs5 Bland, predictable made-for-TV western has Steve Forrest as a feared gunfighter convicted of a murder and sentenced to hang, but who manages to survive the hanging and is set free. By-the-numbers script holds no surprises and the characterizations are all cardboard, including Forrest's one-note portrayal of a killer given a second chance. Bad-guy Cameron Mitchell chews the scenery, pretty Sharon Acker is earnest as a widow who owns a silver mine that "silver king" Mitchell wants to get and Will Geer is somewhat enjoyable as a crusty old-timer called "Nameless" who's Acker's hired hand. It's not long before you can predict exactly what's going to happen, what the bad guy's going to do, what the good guy's going to do and how things will be neatly wrapped up at the end. The whole production looks rushed and cheesy, the equivalent of a Monogram western of the '40s--and, like those Monogram westerns, it's a harmless time-waster. You could do worse, but you could also do much, much better.

last_unicorn52 I've been watching movies for many many years and seen some of the best , along w/ some of the worse. The Hanged Man is not the best But its not bad either. Steve Forrest's acting adds to the plot w/ a dimension of calm cold bloodiness that was prevalent back then. Cameron Mitchell seemed to be a little hammy but from reading history a lot of the big cattle ranchers/mine owners acted that way they thought they were above the Law. Overall it was a little above ave. There's a few other well known actors in it Will Geer Rafael Campos. It does encourage you to see other movies especially w/ those guys. If I may in a personnel note, its a shame us movie goers see actors faces that we have seen before but we don't know there names. A lot of them deserved more..

culwin This is a pretty pointless movie. A western about a gunfighter who is hung but somehow comes back to life. He then fights an army of bad guys. These two events are totally unrelated and are the only discernable plot to the movie. Oh yeah, and for some reason this guy can read people's minds through the whole movie. Not much else to say here, except I am wondering how this managed to actually fill 90 whole minutes.