The Hanged Man
A gunman who believes his friend has been murdered sets out to get the people who killed him and finds himself enmeshed in corrupt labor union politics.
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"Made-for-TV crime-drama--evidently only the second film ever to be produced especially for a television broadcast--was directed by Donald (Don) Siegel and features a good cast of character actors including Robert Culp, Vera Miles, Al Lettieri in an uncredited bit, and Norman Fell (who's terrific). Loose adaptation of Dorothy B. Hughes' novel "Ride the Pink Horse", previously filmed in 1947 starring Robert Montgomery, trades in a Mexican Fiesta for Mardi Gras in New Orleans as a hired gun, seeking to avenge the murder of a friend, is tailed by a government agent working to b..."
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Broadcast 18 November 1964. This was the second made-for-TV movie to air in the US following See How They Run (1964) on NBC 7 October 1964). However, it was Don Siegel''s second foray into filming a feature for TV, since his first, The Killers (1964) was determined to be too violent for television and instead went to theatrical distribution.
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A gunman who believes his friend has been murdered sets out to get the people who killed him and finds himself enmeshed in corrupt labor union politics.