Stardom brought Eastwood more roles. He signed to star in the American revisionist western "Hang 'Em High" (1968) alongside Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle, Dennis Hopper, Ed Begley, Alan Hale Jr., Ben Johnson, Bruce Dern, and James MacArthur, playing a man who takes up a Marshal's badge and seeks revenge as a lawman after being lynched by vigilantes and left for dead. The film earned Eastwood $400,000 and 25% of its net box office. Using money earned from the "Dollars" trilogy, Eastwood's advisor Irving Leonard helped establish Eastwood's own production company, Malpaso Productions, named after Malpaso Creek on Eastwood's property in Monterey County, California. The 38-year-old actor was still relatively unknown as late as a month prior to the film's release, as evidenced by a July 1968 news item by syndicated columnist Dorothy Manners: "The proverbial man in the street is still asking, 'Who's Clint Eastwood?'" Leonard arranged for "Hang 'Em High" to be a joint production with United Artists; when it opened in August 1968, it had the largest opening weekend in United Artists' history. "Hang 'Em High" was widely praised by critics, including Archer Winsten of the "New York Post", who called it "a western of quality, courage, danger and excitement."