High Noon
Directed by	Fred Zinnemann
Produced by	Stanley Kramer
Written by	John W. Cunningham (Story) Carl Foreman (Screenplay)
Starring	Gary Cooper Thomas Mitchell Lloyd Bridges Katy Jurado Grace Kelly
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Distributed by	United Artists
Released	July 7, 1952 (Sweden)
Running time	85 min
Language	English
Budget	$750,000 USD (est.)
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IMDb profile

High Noon is a 1952 western film which tells the story of a town sheriff, who has just married a pacifist Quaker woman. Upon giving up his office immediately after the wedding, he must take on a gang of outlaws led by Frank Miller, a man he personally arrested and sent to the gallows, but was instead paroled by a corrupt administration. The entire town deserts him. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Fred Zinnemann (April 29, 1907—March 14, 1997) was a noted film director. ... Stanley Kramer (September 29, 1913 – February 19, 2001) was a Jewish-American film director and producer. ... Carl Foreman Carl Foreman (July 23, 1914 – June 26, 1984) was an American screenwriter and film producer who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s. ... With Eleanor Roosevelt in 1950 Gary Cooper (May 7, 1901 - May 13, 1961) was an American film actor of British heritage, whose career spanned from the 1920s up until the year of his death. ... Thomas Mitchell (July 11, 1892 – December 17, 1962) was an American film actor. ... Bridges in The Sound of Fury (1950) Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr. ... Katy Jurado (January 16, 1924 – July 5, 2002) was a Mexican actress. ... Princess Grace (born Grace Patricia Kelly November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an Oscar-winning American film actress who, as a result of marriage to Prince Rainier III of Monaco, became Her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco. ... The current United Artists logo. ... July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 177 days remaining. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Broncho Billy Anderson, from The Great Train Robbery The Western movie is one of the classic American film genres. ... Pacifism is opposition to war. ... The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, or Friends, is a religious community founded in England in the 17th century. ...

The movie was written by John W. Cunningham (story) and Carl Foreman, based on a pulp short story, The Tin Star. It was directed by Fred Zinnemann, a controversial choice, since the producers were uncertain that an Austrian Jew would be able to direct the quintessential American genre: the Western. Zinnemann himself was highly influenced by the books of Karl May that he had read as a child. Writer Carl Foreman was also the producer of the film, but he was uncredited because he was blacklisted by the MPAA. Carl Foreman Carl Foreman (July 23, 1914 – June 26, 1984) was an American screenwriter and film producer who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s. ... Pulp magazines (or pulp fiction; often referred to as the pulps ) were inexpensive fiction magazines. ... Fred Zinnemann (April 29, 1907—March 14, 1997) was a noted film director. ... Karl Friedrich May (Hohenstein-Ernstthal, February 25, 1842 - Radebeul, March 30, 1912) was the best selling German writer of all time, noted chiefly for wild west books set in the American West and similar books set in the Middle East; in addition, he also wrote some lesser-known stories set... The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is a non-profit trade association formed to advance the interests of movie studios. ...

High Noon is a generally praised but somewhat controversial western in which a lawman in a western town feels obliged to face down a bunch of bad men coming into town. Cooper's character is betrayed by all the "good" men in town who won't take up arms for a good cause. It is often an interpreted as an allegory of the contemporary failure of intellectuals to combat the rise of McCarthyism. An allegory (from Greek αλλος, allos, other, and αγορευειν, agoreuein, to speak in public) is a figurative mode of representation conveying a meaning other than and in addition to the literal. ... McCarthyism took place during a period of intense suspicion in the United States primarily from 1950 to 1954, when the U.S. government was actively countering American Communist Party subversion, its leadership, and others suspected of being Communists or Communist sympathizers. ...

There was some controversy over the casting of Gary Cooper in the lead role. Although he had already won an Oscar for his performance in Sergeant York, he was considered too old for the part, and was, in fact, thirty years older than Grace Kelly, who plays his wife. Sergeant York is a 1941 biographical film about the life of Sergeant Alvin York, the most decorated American soldier of World War I. It stars Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Stanley Ridges, Margaret Wycherly, Ward Bond, Noah Beery, Jr. ...

In the film she is a young woman who wants her husband to leave town and has a religious aversion to violence of any kind. Still, she stays with him when he fights — and even kills one of her husband's assailants herself.

Grace Kelly and Katy Jurado in High Noon

One of the interesting techniques used in filming High Noon was to have the sequence of events occur in "real time." When a clock is shown in a scene, an event the audience expects to occur at another given time will occur that number of minutes later in the movie. This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... Princess Grace (born Grace Patricia Kelly November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an Oscar-winning American film actress who, as a result of marriage to Prince Rainier III of Monaco, became Her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco. ... Katy Jurado (January 16, 1924 – July 5, 2002) was a Mexican actress. ...

Another effective technique is the crane shot, just before the final gunfight. The shot backs up and raises, and we see Will totally alone and isolated on the street. The entire town has deserted him. In motion picture terminology, a crane shot is a shot taken by a camera on a crane. ...

The director intended to capture the atmosphere of old Civil War photographs, with an austere gray sky as a backdrop. (This effect results from the fact that early film emulsions were most sensitive to blue (and uv) light; Zinneman's attempts to reproduce this effect in the film were one of the reasons he strongly opposed its proposed colorization). Despite the constraints of a limited budget ($750,000) and only 32 days to film, he was able to obtain this even though most of the film was shot on a Hollywood lot by taking advantage of the smog in Los Angeles to darken the sky. The American Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 until 1865 between the northern states, popularly referred to as the U.S., the Union, the North, or the Yankees; and the seceding southern states, commonly referred to as the Confederate States of America, the CSA, the Confederacy... ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The City of Los Angeles (from Spanish; Los Ángeles) is the second-largest city in the United States in terms of population, as well as one of the worlds most important economic, cultural, and entertainment centers. ...

Awards

High Noon is consistently on the Internet Movie Database's list of top 250 films, was #33 on American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Movies, and has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), owned by Amazon. ... The American Film Institute (AFI) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act. ... The National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. ...

The movie won Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Gary Cooper), Best Film Editing, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture (Dimitri Tiomkin), and Best Music, Song (Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington for High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'), sung by Tex Ritter). It was nominated for Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Writing, Screenplay. Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Emil Jannings posses with the very first Best Actor Oscar The Academy Award for Best Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... The Academy Award for Film Editing was first given for films issued in 1934. ... From Rule Sixteen of the Special Rules for The Music Awards Original Score: An original score is a substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer. ... Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (Russian: ) (May 10, 1894 - November 11, 1979) was a film composer and conductor. ... Academy Award for Best Song // 1930s 1934 - The Continental from The Gay Divorcee 1935 Lullaby of Broadway from Gold Diggers of 1935 1936 The Way You Look Tonight from Swing Time 1937 Sweet Leilani from Waikiki Wedding 1938 - Thanks for the Memory from The Big Broadcast of 1938 1939 Over... Ned Washington (15 August 1901 - 20 December 1976) was an American lyric writer. ... High Noon is a popular song. ... Tex Ritter Tex Ritter (January 12, 1905 – January 2, 1974) was an American country singer and actor. ... The Academy Award for Directing is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. ... The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. ... The Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. ...

Remakes

• A made-for-TV sequel, High Noon Part II: The Return Of Will Kane (produced in 1980, 28 years after the original movie was released), featured Lee Majors in the Cooper role.
• The 1980 science fiction film Outland borrowed from the story of High Noon for its plot. The movie starred Sean Connery.
• In 2000, High Noon was entirely re-worked for cable television with Tom Skerritt in the lead role.
• Some speculate that High Noon provided inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai.
• John Wayne was offended by the film and mistakenly believed that Cooper's character ground his badge underfoot at the film's end. Wayne's film Rio Bravo was reportedly made as a counterpoint to High Noon.

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Trivia

High Noon is the film most requested by American Presidents.

High Noon transpires virtually in real-time, which is in contrast to, say, The Searchers. In one of many departures from the traditional western, there is little action until the final 10 minutes. The only exception is a fistfight between Kane and his former deputy, Harvey Pell. Otherwise, the film is comprised of mainly Kane’s failed attempts to rally the townspeople to his cause. High Noon's tension mainly comes from Kane’s desperation, which is aided by the editing. The frequent shots of various clocks with the hands approaching noon increase the unbearable tension. The Searchers is a 1956 epic Western film directed by John Ford which tells the story of a man who spends years looking for his niece who was taken by Indians. ...

Cast

• Gary Cooper — Marshal Will Kane
• Thomas Mitchell — Mayor Jonas Henderson
• Lloyd Bridges — Deputy Sheriff Harvey Pell
• Katy Jurado — Helen Ramirez
• Grace Kelly — Amy (Fowler) Kane
• Otto Kruger — Judge Percy Mettrick
• Lon Chaney Jr. — Martin Howe (as Lon Chaney)
• Harry Morgan — Sam Fuller (as Henry Morgan)
• Ian MacDonald — Frank Miller
• Eve McVeagh — Mildred Fuller
• Morgan Farley — Dr. Mahin, Minister
• Harry Shannon — Cooper
• Lee Van Cleef — Jack Colby
• Robert J. Wilke — Pierce (as Robert Wilke)
• Sheb Wooley — Ben Miller
• Jack Elam — Charlie the Drunkard (uncredited)

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External links and references

• High Noon at the Internet Movie Database
• A detailed site
• The Ballad of High Noon & The Rise of the Movie Theme Song (Senses of Cinema)
• Steele Review
• Classic Movies: High Noon (1952)

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