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High Noon (1952)

 -  Drama | Western  -  30 July 1952 (USA)
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A marshall, personally compelled to face a returning deadly enemy, finds that his own town refuses to help him.

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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... Written by Man_With_No_Name_126

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lawman | train | revenge | wedding | outlaw | See more »

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Drama | Western

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Rated PG for some western violence, and smoking | See all certifications »

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Release Date:

30 July 1952 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

A la hora señalada  »

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Budget:

$750,000 (estimated)
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(Western Electric Recording)

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1.37 : 1
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Trivia

The wife of Sam, Harry Morgan's character, was named Mildred. In M*A*S*H, Morgan's character, Col. Sherman Potter, also had a wife named Mildred. See more »

Goofs

In the church scene a young girl is still in the church next to her mother after all the children have been "dismissed"; in the very next shot she is not there. See more »

Quotes

Martin: You risk your skin catching killers and the juries turn them loose so they can come back and shoot at you again. If you're honest you're poor your whole life and in the end you wind up dying all alone on some dirty street. For what? For nothing. For a tin star.
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Referenced in Homicide: Life on the Street: Gone for Goode (1993) See more »

Soundtracks

"High Noon"
(1951)
by Dimitri Tiomkin
Lyrics by Ned Washington
Sung by Tex Ritter
Played often in the score
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Citizen Kane
29 August 2004 | by (New York) – See all my reviews

High Noon is one of the most loved films of all times thanks to the elements that came together to make it the classic that it is. The movie owes a lot to Fred Zinnemann for his tight account of this story by Carl Foreman. The film benefits from Dimitri Tiomkin's great score and the great cinematography by Floyd Crosby.

This is a film that packs a lot of symbolism because of the times when it was done. Those were the days of the communist hysteria where many people in the industry were accused, tried and lost jobs because when they faced the HUAC and Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Gary Cooper plays a man who is decent enough to return to the town where he just has gotten married and has finished his tour of duty. His conscience doesn't let him leave his post as he delays his plans and goes back to defend the town from the bandit who's been freed by Northern judges, and is coming back to seek revenge from Marshal Kane and the town.

Gary Cooper embodied the all Amercian hero. He was an actor who could do no wrong, as he proves in his take of Marshal Kane. We see him as the clock is ticking away toward noon time when the train will arrive in Hadleyville. We see him perspire as he goes around trying to get people help him deal with the problem, to no avail; he will have to do it himself. In the process, he clearly disappoints his new bride, who is horrified at the prospect of losing the man she clearly loves.

Grace Kelly was such an elegant figure that it's hard to imagine she would be in Hadleyville at all! Katy Jurado was also excellent as the jaded Helen Ramirez, the woman who owned a lot of businesses in town. Also effective, Thomas Mitchell, as the mayor of the town and Lloyd Bridges, as Harvey.

This is a film to treasure.


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