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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.
The episode title, and the background music heard throughout it, derive from the American song "The Ballad of High Noon" – also called "Do Not Forsake Me, O My Darlin '" – introduced in the 1952 movie High Noon.
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.
High Noon is a 2000 American Western television film directed by Rod Hardy and written by Carl Foreman and T. S. Cook.It is a remake of the 1952 film High Noon, also written by Foreman, itself based on the 1947 Collier's magazine short story "The Tin Star" by John W. Cunningham.
"The Ballad of High Noon" (also known simply as "High Noon", or by its opening lyric and better known title, "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'") is a popular song published in 1952, with music by Dimitri Tiomkin and lyrics by Ned Washington.