high noon

     

High Noon is a 1952 western film irected by Fred Zinnemann; about a town marshal who is forced to face a gang of killers by himself. The movie was written by John W. Cunningham and Carl Foreman, based on Cunningham's pulp short story, The Tin Star.

Trivia about high noon

  • The action in this film begins at 10:30 A.M. & plays out in almost-real time until 12:15
  • This classic 1952 movie was based on the story "The Tin Star"
  • The title time of day when everybody deserted Gary Cooper in a classic 1952 western
  • It was Grace Kelly's first, last, and only Western movie
  • Yup, it's the western for which Gary Cooper won an acting Oscar
  • "The noonday train will bring Frank Miller" at 12 sharp in this 1952 film; look out, Gary!
  • Gary Cooper was Marshal Will Kane in this classic
  • This Oscar-winning song from 1952 is subtitled "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'"
  • Tex Ritter sang the theme of this 1952 Gary Cooper pic
  • 1952: "The public doesn't give a damn about integrity. A town that won't defend itself deserves no help"
  • 1952, Grace Kelly:"You're asking me to wait an hour to find out if I'm going to be a wife or a widow"

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