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 him ; and Pat Hingle as the judge who hires Jed as a U.S. Marshal .
It stars Clint Eastwood as Jed Cooper , an innocent man who survives being hanged , Inger Stevens as a widow who helps him , Ed Begley as the leader of the gang that tried to hang him , and Pat Hingle as the judge who hires Jed as a US Marshal .