randolph scott hangman's knot mp4 download Hangman's knot. The hangman's knot [3] or hangman's noose (also known as a collar during the Elizabethan era) is a knot most often associated with its use in hanging a person. For a hanging, the knot of the rope is typically placed under or just behind the left ear, although the most effective position is just ahead of the ear, beneath the angle of the left lower jaw. The pull on the knot at the end of the drop levers the jaw and head violently up and to the right, which combines with the jerk of the rope becoming taut to wrench the upper neck vertebrae apart. This produces very rapid death, whereas the traditional position beneath the ear was intended to result in the mass of the knot crushing closed (occluding) neck arteries, causing cessation of brain circulation. The knot is non-jamming but tends to resist attempts to loosen it. Contents. Number of coils See also References Further reading External links. Number of coils. Surviving nooses in the United Kingdom show simple slipknots that were superseded in the late 19th century with a metal eye spliced into one end of the rope, the noose being formed by passing the other end through it. The classic hangman's knot was largely developed in the United States, the heavy mass of the knot intended to crush blood vessels in the neck and if tightened beneath the jaw, to lever the head to one side. Filmed hangings of war criminals in Europe after World War II, conducted under US jurisdiction, show such knots placed in various places, including at the back of the neck. Each additional coil adds friction to the knot, which makes the noose harder to pull closed or open. When Grover Cleveland was the sheriff of Erie County, he performed two hangings. Cleveland was advised by a more experienced Sheriff to grease the rope with tallow and run it through the knot a few times to ensure rapid closure with the drop. The number of coils should therefore be adjusted depending on the intended use, the type and thickness of rope, and environmental conditions such as wet or greasy rope. Six to eight loops are normal when using natural ropes. One coil makes it equivalent to the simple running knot. The number thirteen was thought to be unlucky. Consequently, in myth, if not in actual practice, thirteen coils were found in a hangman's noose, a foreboding sign for those convicted to be hanged. Woody Guthrie sings of the hangman using thirteen coils: Did you ever see a hangman tie a hangknot? I've seen it many a time and he winds, he winds, After thirteen times he's got a hangknot. See also. Related Research Articles. A knot is an intentional complication in cordage which may be practical or decorative, or both. Practical knots are classified by function, including hitches, bends, loop knots, and splices: a hitch fastens a rope to another object; a bend fastens two ends of a rope to each another; a loop knot is any knot creating a loop, and splice denotes any multi-strand knot, including bends and loops. A knot may also refer, in the strictest sense, to a stopper or knob at the end of a rope to keep that end from slipping through a grommet or eye. Knots have excited interest since ancient times for their practical uses, as well as their topological intricacy, studied in the area of mathematics known as knot theory. The bowline is an ancient and simple knot used to form a fixed loop at the end of a rope. It has the virtues of being both easy to tie and untie; most notably, it is easy to untie after being subjected to a load. The bowline is sometimes referred to as King of the knots because of its importance. Along with the sheet bend and the clove hitch, the bowline is often considered one of the most essential knots. The overhand knot , also known as a a knot and half knot , is one of the most fundamental knots, and it forms the basis of many others, including the simple noose, overhand loop, angler's loop, reef knot, fisherman's knot, and water knot. The overhand knot is a stopper, especially when used alone, and hence it is very secure, to the point of jamming badly. It should be used if the knot is intended to be permanent. It is often used to prevent the end of a rope from unraveling. An overhand knot becomes a trefoil knot, a true knot in the mathematical sense, by joining the ends. A shank is a type of knot that is used to shorten a rope or take up slack, such as the sheepshank . The sheepshank knot is not stable. It will fall apart under too much load or too little load. Hanging is the suspension of a person by a noose or ligature around the neck. The Oxford English Dictionary states that hanging in this sense is "specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck", though it formerly also referred to crucifixion and death by impalement in which the body would remain "hanging". Hanging has been a common method of capital punishment since medieval times, and is the primary execution method in numerous countries and regions. The first known account of execution by hanging was in Homer's Odyssey . In this specialised meaning of the common word hang , the past and past participle is hanged instead of hung . A slipped half hitch is a knot in which the weight of the load the rope carries depresses the loop sufficiently to keep it in place until the load item is placed in its location. When no longer required the free end may be pulled and draw the loop through and so release the load. A gallows is a frame, typically wooden, from which objects can be hung or "weighed". Gallows were thus widely used for public weighing scales for large objects such as sacks of grain or minerals, usually positioned in markets or toll gates. The term was also used for a framework from which a ship’s anchor might be raised so that it no longer sitting on the bottom, i.e., "weighing [the] anchor". In modern usage it has come to mean almost exclusively a scaffold or gibbet used for execution by hanging. A noose is a loop at the end of a rope in which the knot tightens under load and can be loosened without untying the knot. The knot can be used to secure a rope to a post, pole, or animal but only where the end is in a position that the loop can be passed over. Self-locking devices are devices intended to arrest the fall of solo climbers who climb without partners. This device is used for back rope solo climbing for "ground-up climbing" or "top rope self belaying". To date, several types of such self-locking devices have evolved. The cow hitch , also called the lark's head , is a hitch knot used to attach a rope to an object. The cow hitch comprises a pair of half-hitches tied in opposing directions, as compared to the clove hitch in which the half-hitches are tied in the same direction. It has several variations and is known under a variety of names. It can be tied either with the end of the rope or with a bight. The bottle sling is a knot which can be used to create a handle for a glass or ceramic container with a slippery narrow neck, as long as the neck widens slightly near the top. Hangman's fracture is the colloquial name given to a fracture of both pedicles, or pars interarticulares , of the axis vertebra (C2). The fiador knot is a decorative, symmetrical knot used in equine applications to create items such as rope halters, hobbles, and components of the fiador on some hackamore designs. As traditionally described, it is a four strand diamond knot in which six of the eight ends loop back into the knot, thus allowing it to be tied with a single line. While a specific knot is discussed in this article, the fiador knot has also been treated as an entire class of multi-strand knots similarly made with a single line. A chain sinnet is a method of shortening a rope or other cable while in use or for storage. It is formed by making a series of simple crochet-like stitches in the line. It can also reduce tangling while a rope is being washed in a washing machine. A coiling or coil is a curve, helix, or spiral used for storing rope or cable in compact and reliable yet easily attainable form. They are often discussed with knots. Rope are often coiled and hung up in lofts for storage. They are also hung over stakes in farm wagons and on hooks in moving vans, fire apparatus and linesmen's repair trucks. For such active storage coils must be well made. Suicide by hanging is the intentional killing of oneself (suicide) via suspension from an anchor-point such as an overhead beam or hook, by a rope or cord or by jumping from a height with a noose around the neck. Nicolae Minovici was a Romanian forensic scientist and criminologist who served as head of his country's anthropometric service. He is known for his studies investigating connections between tattooing and criminal behaviour, as well as his research on hanging and its physiological effects on the human body. He was the founder of the Legal Medicine Association of Romania and the publisher of the Romanian journal of Legal Medicine. He also served as mayor of Băneasa, Bucharest. A heaving line knot is a family of knots which are used for adding weight to the end of a rope, to make the rope easier to throw. In nautical use, a heaving line knot is often tied to the end of a messenger line, which is then used for pulling a larger rope, such as a hawser. There are several distinct knots which all share the common name, heaving line knot . The monkey fist is a well-known heaving line knot. Randolph scott hangman's knot mp4 download. Reviewed by Glenn Erickson. Randolph Scott is normally celebrated for his Budd Boetticher westerns, known in critical circles as the "Ranown Cycle." These include Seven Men From Now, Ride Lonesome, Comanche Station and the Elmore Leonard written The Tall T . Hangman's Knot predates those and hooks Scott up with Roy Huggins, a talented writer-director who would later make his name on television with James Garner. It's an okay low-budget item that lacks the finesse of the later Boetticher films. The Nevada territory, 1865. Confederate Major Matt (Randolph Scott) and his patrol hijack a Union gold shipment and kill the troops guarding it, only to discover from a dying officer that the war is over. They're pursued by a local posse until they hole up at a way station with some prisoners they've inherited while stealing a stagecoach - shifty Lee Kemper (Richard Denning) and nurse Molly (Donna Reed). The posse lays seige to the station house while tempers rise inside: the station agent's daughter Martha (Jeanette Nolan) hates the Rebs, and Reb troublemaker Rolph (Lee Marvin) turns his eye to Molly, who is slowly falling for Major Matt. The posse turns out to just be common criminals out for the stolen gold, which is quickly becoming a deadly burden. Hangman's Knot is almost as basic as Roger Corman's pinchpenny Five Guns West - its action is limited to some raw territory up by Lone Pine (familiar turf in the later Ranown pictures) and a stage station that might be the same rental set used for the Corman film. A spirited cast goes through the motions of a stock script. The desperate Rebels know nobody will believe that their attack on the Yankees was a sincere military raid. Everyone's after the gold, and north-south enmity is behind most character motivations. Young Claude Jarman Jr. of The Yearling fame plays a southern orphan that bitter northern widow Jeanette Nolan will eventually look to for a substitute son. The script is efficient and the acting is by the numbers. Randolph Scott is his dependable self and he has some good tangles with standout hothead Lee Marvin, who at the time specialized in colorful bad men. Marvin would eventually become the first Ranown-cycle villain for Scott to pair off against in Seven Men From Now . Richard Denning is his familiar handsome weasel character. Donna Reed's part is fairly lame - she's resentful at first, she deflects a rape attempt by Marvin and then promptly falls into Scott's manly arms. Marking time until From Here to Eternity, this is no career highlight for her. Judging by what's on the screen, Roy Huggins is a good writer who wants to make something different. His violent story does seek opportunities for a more realistic treatment. But as a tyro director Huggins is without sufficient clout to give Hangman's Knot a visual edge or a distinctive look, as did Budd Boetticher. The fights are a case in point. When Lee Marvin and Randolph Scott duke it out the substitution of completely unconvincing doubles is almost embarrassing. I'll bet that the "more experienced" crew had enough influence to do things their way, so the fights become a résumé reel for the stuntmen. Likewise, camera angles seem chosen for production simplicity instead of anything visual. At one point the false posse tunnels under the shack, but there's no attempt to do anything with the idea. We just see two men with shovels. 1 Some developments are unintentionally amusing. Lee Marvin gets beaten to a pulp for pawing Donna Reed, and only a few minutes later sees her embracing Scott, who she's supposed to hate. "Awww!" squawks Marvin in protest, and we understand his dismay - the good guys always get the girls. Hangman's Knot has a decent reputation with western fans. The color is good and the basic situation is interesting for the time: soldiers-turned- thieves versus outlaws pretending to be a posse. The posse leader is played by familiar baddie Ray Teal, backed up by Guinn "Big Boy" Williams from the old Errol Flynn western days. Scott also rounded up other old timers Monte Blue and Clem Bevans. The best thing in the film is the calm performance by Frank Faylen, "Ernie" the taxi driver from It's a Wonderful Life . He's the one who almost gets hung, and he has an engaging spirit that fits in well with Huggins' serious aspirations. Columbia TriStar's DVD of Hangman's Knot looks just fine; the Technicolor materials are in fine shape. The stock music score (see the list of music 'donors' above, courtesy the IMDB) attests to the talent of unsung studio music editors, who were often called upon to dress up yet another program picture and make it sound as if it had original music. There are no extras. Instead of a trailer for this film, there's a mix of other western trailers and video promos. The cover illustration makes Randolph Scott look like Grady Sutton, or an adult Kewpie doll. On a scale of Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor, Hangman's Knot rates: Movie: Good Video: Excellent Sound: Excellent Supplements: none Packaging: Keep case Reviewed: June 15, 2004. 1. This is one major reason that Sam Peckinpah decided early on to become a real tyrant on the set: Hollywood westerns were so cut-and-dried that allowing the crew to do things their way often yielded slack and mediocre results. Return. Hangman´s Knot (1952) - Randolph Scott DVD. Hangman's Knot is an exciting, suspense-filled Western starring Randolph Scott and an excellent supporting cast, including Donna Reed (Best Supporting Actress winner From here to Eternity , 1953) and Lee Marvin (Best Actor Oscar winner Cat Ballou , 1965). At the end of the Civil War, a small band of Confederate soldiers ambush a Union gold shipment. To their horror, they learn from a dying soldier that the war between the North and the South has been over for a month. Now facing certain criminal prosecution for acts committed while they thought the war was on, the troop seeks refuge in a stagecoach waystation. A feisty ex-Union army nurse (Reed) and three others are held captive while the men plot their next move. The troops' leader (Scott) wants to return the gold in exchange for amnesty, but the blood-thirsty bounty hunters are closing in, and have every intention of taking the loot and hanging the soldiers. This handsome Technicolor production proved to be Scott's biggest commercial and critical success. The top-notch cast includes Jeanette Nolan ( The Big Heat , Orson Welles' Macbeth ), Richard Denning ( An Affair to Remember ) and Claude Jarman, Jr. ( The Yearling ). Hangman's Knot (1952) Plot Summary In 1865, a troop of Confederate soldiers led by Major Matt Stewart attack the wagon of gold escorted by Union cavalry and the soldiers are killed. The only wounded survivor tells that the war ended one month ago, and the group decides to take the gold and meet their liaison that knew that the war ended but did not inform the troop. The harsh Rolph Bainter kills the greedy man and the soldiers flee in his wagon driven by Major Stewart. When they meet a posse chasing them, Stewart gives wrong information to misguide the group; however, they have an accident with the wagon and lose the horses. They decide to stop a stagecoach and force the driver to transport them, but the posse returns and they are trapped in the station with the passenger. They realize that the men are not deputies and have no intention to bring them to justice but take the stolen gold. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Cast Randolph Scott . Matt Stewart Donna Reed . Molly Hull Claude Jarman Jr. . Jamie Groves Frank Faylen . Cass Browne Glenn Langan . Capt. Petersen Richard Denning . Lee Kemper Lee Marvin . Rolph Bainter Jeanette Nolan . Mrs. Margaret Harris Clem Bevans . Plunkett, the Station agent Ray Teal . Quincey Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams . Smitty Monte Blue . Maxwell John Call . Egan Walsh and many more. Directed Roy Huggins. Writing Credits Roy Huggins . (written by) Produced Harry Joe Brown . producer Randolph Scott . associate producer. Cinematography Charles Lawton Jr. . director of photography. Goofs Anachronisms When the Confederates ambush the Union gold shipment, they use dynamite. The film is set in 1865, but dynamite was not patented by its inventor, Alfred Nobel, until 1867. Dynamite was not in use during the American Civil War by either side. Crew or equipment visible During the gold robbery, there is an obvious dummy 'driving' the wagon just before the mules separate from it. The same dummy is used when one of the characters gets his foot caught in a stirrup, and is dragged off at high speed by his horse. Plot holes When Bainter throws the stick of dynamite during the robbery, three cavalry troopers are blown off their horses and killed, but the horses suffer no injuries. Revealing mistakes The man fighting with Lee Marvin is obviously not Randolph Scott. Filming Locations Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California, USA Corriganville, Ray Corrigan Ranch, Simi Valley, California, USA. Watch the Movie. The post was edited 1 time, last by ethanedwards ( Apr 4th 2017, 7:37am ). ethanedwards. Hangman's Knot is a 1952 American Technicolor Western film written and directed by Roy Huggins and starring Randolph Scott, Donna Reed , and Claude Jarman, Jr. The film is about a group of Confederate soldiers, unaware that the Civil War is over, who intercept a shipment of gold escorted by Union cavalry troops and are then pursued by a renegade posse. Hangman's Knot was filmed on location in the Alabama Hills in Lone Pine, California. Duke 'Pals' Donna Reed, Claude Jarman Jr., Lee Marvin star in this movie. User Review. Scott's best prior to Budd Boetticher 8 December 2006 | by clore_2 (New York, New York) clore wrote: 1952 saw the Columbia release of one of Scott's best - Hangman's Knot. They don't come much more taut than this, and its success only brings into question as to why director Roy Huggins never made another film as director. This one really begins to approach the later Boetticher films, being set in an isolated way station, as several of Budd's films happened to be, with Randy as a Confederate officer, who has stolen Union gold, not knowing the war is over. Outlaws, learning of the loot, besiege the soldiers at the way station, but just as much danger comes from within - the menacing soldier played by Lee Marvin. The cast is better than those in the then most recent Scott vehicles, including Donna Reed, Claude Jarman, Jr., Richard Denning and Guinn "Big Boy Williams. Randy's son C.H. Scott, in the book "Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott" speaks fondly of Donna Reed, as if she was a second mother, and says that she and his father never lost touch over the years, and were devoted to each other. Omitting the Boetticher films, this one is clearly the strongest Scott offering of the 1950s. That Huggins never directed a feature film again (he did direct a 1970 TV movie) is more our loss than his. Huggins did quite well in the long run, with items like Maverick, Rockford Files and The Fugitive in his future. With much of the film set within the way station, Huggins manages to keep the tension high as Scott has to deal with the group of bounty hunters outside (led by Ray Teal in a rousing performance) and the wayward loose cannon Ralph, the Lee Marvin character. Lee must have impressed producer Scott as he got a much showier role in the first Scott-Boetticher classic SEVEN MEN FROM NOW. Meanwhile, Scott must serve as surrogate big brother of Claude Jarman Jr, no longer the little boy of THE YEARLING and in fact nearly as tall as the film's lead star. Richard Denning also impresses in his part as Donna Reed's fiancée, a character as weak-willed as the fiancée in the later Boetticher film THE TALL T. At first willing to call attention to an attempted escape by Scott and company (despite giving his word otherwise), he later bargains to give them an alternate plan of escape - in exchange for two bars of the captured gold. My favorite of Scott's 50's westerns prior to his Boetticher films and dollar for dollar, the equal of many much bigger budgeted items from the likes of Wayne and Cooper. HANGMAN'S KNOT. HANGMAN'S KNOT is an exciting, suspense-filled Western starring Randolph Scott and an excellent supporting cast, including Donna Reed (Best Supporting Actress Oscar® winner From here to Eternity, 1953) and Lee Marvin (Best Actor Oscar®-winner Cat Ballou, 1965). At the end of the Civil War, a small band of Confederate soldiers ambush a Union gold shipment. To their horror, they learn from a dying soldier that the war between the North and the South has been over for a month. Now facing certain criminal prosecution for acts committed while they thought the war was on, the troop seeks refuge in a stagecoach way station. A feisty ex-Union army nurse (Reed) and three others are held captive while the men plot their next move. The troops' leader (Scott) wants to return the gold in exchange for amnesty, but the bloodthirsty bounty hunters are closing in, and have every intention of taking the loot and hanging the soldiers. This handsome Technicolor production proved to be Scott's biggest commercial and critical success. The top-notch cast includes Jeanette Nolan (The Big Heat, Orson Welles' Macbeth), Richard Denning (An Affair to Remember) and Claude Jarman, Jr. (The Yearling). © 1952, renewed 1980 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.