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High Noon is a 1952 American Western film produced by Stanley Kramer from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, directed by Fred Zinnemann, and starring Gary Cooper.The plot, which occurs in real time, centers on a town marshal whose sense of duty is tested when he must decide to either face a gang of killers alone, or leave town with his new wife.
In High Noon, Will Kane is a town marshal of the fictional Hadleyville, New Mexico Territory.It is both his wedding day and his last day as a marshal. He is about to leave town with his bride, Amy, to start a new life as a store clerk when the clerk of the telegraph office brings bad news: a man he sent to prison some years earlier, Frank Miller, has been released from prison and is arriving ...
6. ‘High Noon’ (1952) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94%. IMDb Score: 8/10. Gary Cooper and the rest of the cast broke the mold in this Western directed by Fred Zinnemann.
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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 January 2025. 2007 film by Ethan and Joel Coen For the novel, see No Country for Old Men (novel). For the poem that includes this line, see Sailing to Byzantium. No Country for Old Men Theatrical release poster Directed by Joel Coen Ethan Coen Screenplay by Joel Coen Ethan Coen Based on No Country for ...
With his early films between 1937 and 1942 he began using that technique, and with High Noon in 1952, possibly his finest film, he created the tense atmosphere by coordinating screen time with real time. [8] Because he started his film career as a cameraman, his movies are strongly oriented toward the visual aspects.
Actor Gary Cooper served as an idealized everyman during the "golden age of Hollywood", appearing as the protagonist in movies such as 1952's High Noon. [1] [2] The everyman is a stock character of fiction. An ordinary and humble character, [3] [4] the everyman is generally a protagonist whose benign conduct fosters the audience's ...
Wilke started as a stuntman in the 1930s and his first appearance on screen was in San Francisco (1936). [1] He soon began to acquire regular character parts, mainly as a heavy, and made his mark when, along with Lee Van Cleef and Sheb Wooley, he played one of the "three men waiting at the station" in High Noon (1952).