HANGMAN’S KNOT (1952, USA, 81m, PG) ***½ Western dist. Columbia Pictures; pr co. Producers-Actors Corporation / Scott-Brown Productions; d. Roy Huggins; w. Roy Huggins; pr. Harry Joe Brown; ph. Charles Lawton Jr. (Technicolor | 1.37:1); md. Mischa Bakaleinikoff; ed. Gene Havlick. cast: Randolph Scott (Major Matt Stewart), Donna Reed (Molly Hull), Claude Jarman Jr. (Jamie…