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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.
In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Bosley Crowther lambasted At Gunpoint as a poor imitation of High Noon (1952): "At Gunpoint" is another barefaced imitation of that memorable Western "High Noon,'' but it suffers severely by comparison—as well as in other ways.
Outland is a 1981 science fiction thriller film written and directed by Peter Hyams and starring Sean Connery, Peter Boyle and Frances Sternhagen.. Set on Jupiter's moon Io, it has been described as a space Western [5] and bears narrative and thematic resemblances to the 1952 film High Noon.
Among the films that Williams edited are High Noon (1952), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) and The Vikings (1958). Williams was involved in the production of The Longest Day (1962) and Cleopatra (1963), [4] and he was a producer of the film Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970). Between 1971 and 1974, Williams was the Head of Production for 20th Century ...
The film was not well received by critics. Jeffrey Meyers noted that Cooper's career went down hill in the early 1950s, until High Noon opened in 1952, and labelled Springfield Rifle a "mediocre" western. [5] Rebecca Fish Ewan called the film "confusing" and said that Cooper looked "ever perplexed". [6]
Kelly in High Noon (1952), her first major film role. Kelly was performing at Colorado's Elitch Theatre when producer Stanley Kramer offered her a role co-starring opposite Cooper in Fred Zinnemann's High Noon (1952), a Western filmed in Columbia, California. She accepted the role, and the film was shot in the late summer and early fall of 1951 ...