A Man for Hanging

Peter Breck has a fat gut, an eye patch and looks and acts insane. Dismal performance by an actor who looks headed to skid row of film making. Shoe string budget with little redeeming value, this Z film should be baged and thrown in the nearest garbage can.

I only have this on VHS currently can't find it on DVD or Blu, i don't know i like it. Well i like Nick Barkley. What's not to like? I like the ballad at the beginning. Its a bit of a mess story wise, but for him i'd watch anything this gorgeous hunk of goon is in.

I agree wholeheartedly with another reviewer here who wrote this film should be bagged and thrown in the nearest garbage can. Absolute garbage, despite a really good cast. What were they thinking when they signed on to this potato? The terrorizing rape scenes are awful, and seem geared to a sick audience. It is also one of the stupidest westerns I've ever seen, especially the gun fights where both sides blaze away dozens of rounds without ever reloading. We have a station master who goes about the country side unarmed. His wife doesn't have a gun, either. A beautiful gal played by Brooke Bundy who just happens to be target practicing alone by a road, but later has the amazing ability to leave after all the good guys but beat them to the bad guys' rendezvous. A deputy sheriff who makes Festus look like a rocket scientist. I have to admit, though, there were some nice looking horses in this movie.

I found the movie supremely pointless. The camera work was uninteresting and there was very little character development. By the end of the movie I was still unable to tell the members of the posse apart. The only mildly interesting character was the bad guy played by Peter Breck, and the details of his personality, aside from enjoying killing lame horses, beating/raping young ladies, and having an insane laugh most of that was only hinted at.

A Man for Hanging is an engrossing often gruesome Film Noir Western. The camera work and score are good. The cast of seasoned professionals is excellent, including Peter Breck as the monster killer, Michael Pataki as a scummy Mexican bandit and David Macklin as a hunky, hot headed but sensitive hero.