High Noon (1952)


Starring:

Gary Cooper             Marshal Will Kane
Grace Kelly             Amy Fowler Kane
Thomas Mitchell         Mayor Jonas Henderson
Lloyd Bridges           Deputy Marshal Harvey Pell
Katy Jurado             Helen Ramírez
Otto Kruger             Judge Percy Mettrick
Lon Chaney Jr.          Martin Howe
Harry Morgan            Sam Fuller
Ian MacDonald           Frank Miller
Eve McVeagh             Mildred Fuller
Lee Van Cleef           Jack Colby
Harry Shannon           Cooper

Directed by:            Fred Zinnemann
Produced by:            Stanley Kramer, Elmo Williams


Gary Cooper is Hollywood's perfect hero, the very embodiment of integrity and grace in this greatest 
of Westerns. As a newly married town marshal, he must balance an innate sense of justice and duty with 
loyalty to his beautiful new--and pacifist--bride when he is left by an ungrateful town to face a gang 
of deadly outlaws alone. As we watch spellbound, film time is real time as the showdown grows ever 
closer. HIGH NOON is a masterpiece that is frequently interpreted as a parable about artists left to 
"stand alone" and face persecution during the HUAC Hollywood blacklisting. However, Howard Hawks 
allegedly devised RIO BRAVO as an answer to the film's "wimpiness," and John Wayne once declared 
HIGH NOON as un-American--he was apparently offended by the ending of the film, which shows Sheriff 
Kane removing his badge and tossing it in the dirt.

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On the day he gets married and hangs up his badge, lawman Will Kane is told that a man he sent to prison 
years before, Frank Miller, is returning on the noon train to exact his revenge. Having initially decided 
to leave with his new spouse, Will decides he must go back and face Miller. However, when he seeks the 
help of the townspeople he has protected for so long, they turn their backs on him. It seems Kane may have 
to face Miller alone, as well as the rest of Miller's gang, who are waiting for him at the station.

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A retiring lawman about to leave town with his new bride seeks allies among the fearful townspeople when 
an outlaw he put in prison returns with his gang to take revenge in this classic western.

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Will Kane is a town marshall. It's his wedding day and his last day as a lawman. He was about to leave 
town with his new bride to start a new life when some men come to town who tell him that a man he sent 
to prison some years ago has just been released and is arriving on the noon train. Kane and any of the 
townsfolk who remember him, know that he's coming to town for one thing; to get Will. Will's friends tell 
him to leave town which he does but Will feeling that running away is not a solution returns and intends 
to face him. Will tries to find support from his friends but all of them don't want to help him or are 
too afraid and all that they tell him is to leave, even his wife feels the same way. And as the train 
comes closer, Will is all alone.