The Hanging Tree (film)

The Hanging Tree
Directed by	Delmer Daves
Screenplay by	Wendell Mayes Halsted Welles
Based on	The Hanging Tree 1957 novelette by Dorothy M. Johnson
Produced by	Martin Jurow Richard Shepherd
Starring	Gary Cooper Maria Schell Karl Malden
Cinematography	Ted D. McCord
Edited by	Owen Marks
Music by	Jerry Livingston (title song) Max Steiner
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	Baroda Productions
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	February 11, 1959 (1959-02-11)
Running time	107 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$2.2 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)[1]

The Hanging Tree is a 1959 American Western film directed by Delmer Daves, based on the novelette The Hanging Tree, written by Dorothy M. Johnson in 1957. The film stars Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden and George C. Scott, and it is set in the gold fields of Montana during the gold rush of the 1860s and 1870s. The story follows a doctor who saves a criminal from a lynch mob, then earns the enmity of several prospectors while trying to protect a young woman whom he has nursed back to health after she was injured in a coach robbery. Karl Malden assumed directing duties for several days when Daves fell ill, and the film represented the first cinematic appearance for George C. Scott.