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The Hanging Tree
The Hanging Tree is a 1959 Technicolor Western film directed by Delmer Daves, based on the novelette, "The Hanging Tree", written by Dorothy M. Johnson in 1957. Karl Malden took over directing duties for several days when Daves fell ill. The film stars Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, George C. Scott and Malden and is set in the gold fields of Montana during the gold rush of the 1860s and '70s. The story follows a doctor who saves a criminal from a lynch mob, then
Hanging Tree" was eventually certified platinum in Canada and Germany as well as double platinum in the United States. To promote the song, a remix by producer Michael Gazzo was released.
Background and release.
"The Hanging Tree" was written by Suzanne Collins and originally appeared in her novel "Mockingjay" (2010); Jeremiah Fraites and Wesley Schultz from American indie folk band The Lumineers composed the track while production was handled by James Newton Howard.
Schultz revealed that director Francis Lawrence instructed him to create a