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Release Date:
30 July 1952 (USA)
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Simple. Powerful. Unforgettable. more
Plot:
A marshall, personally compelled to face a returning deadly enemy, finds that his own town refuses to help him. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Won 4 Oscars.
Another 11 wins
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8 nominations
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(19 articles)
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"Oh, To Be Torn Twixt Love And Duty"
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Gary Cooper | ... | Marshal Will Kane |
 | Thomas Mitchell | ... | Mayor Jonas Henderson |
 | Lloyd Bridges | ... | Deputy Marshal Harvey Pell |
| Katy Jurado | ... | Helen Ramírez |
 | 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 | ... | Jim Pierce (as Robert Wilke) |
| Sheb Wooley | ... | Ben Miller |
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85 min
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1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Canada:G (Nova Scotia/Quebec) |
Canada:PG (Ontario) |
Canada:G (Manitoba) |
Iceland:L |
South Korea:15 |
West Germany:12 (f) |
Germany:12 (DVD rating) |
USA:Passed (National Board of Review) |
Argentina:Atp |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:16 (original rating) |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:11 (re-release) |
Sweden:15 |
UK:U |
USA:Approved (PCA #15653)
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Trivia:
Film debut of Lee Van Cleef.
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Anachronisms: Although the Trivia for this film states, "The film is set in Hadleyville, population 650, in the New Mexico Territory, on a hot summer Sunday. The 37-star flag the judge removes as he prepares to flee shows that the time frame is sometime between Nebraska's admission as the 37th state on March 1, 1867 and Colorado's admission as the 38th state on August 1, 1876," the date on the large boarding house at the end of the street as Amy and Helen are taking the buckboard out of town is "1888".
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Will:
Stay at the hotel until it's over.
Amy: No, I won't be here when it's over. You're asking me to wait an hour to find out if I'm going to be a wife or a widow. I say it's too long to wait! I won't do it!
Will: Amy!
Amy: I mean it! If you won't go with me now, I'll be on that train when it leaves here.
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Amy: No, I won't be here when it's over. You're asking me to wait an hour to find out if I'm going to be a wife or a widow. I say it's too long to wait! I won't do it!
Will: Amy!
Amy: I mean it! If you won't go with me now, I'll be on that train when it leaves here.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet: Cowboys (#2.6)" (1986)
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Soundtrack:
Buffalo Gals (Won't You Come Out Tonight)
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Are there any other movies like ""High Noon" that are told in real time?A Note Regarding Spoilers
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On Marshal Gary Cooper's wedding day to Grace Kelly, Lee Van Cleef, Sheb Woolley, and Robert J. Wilkie wait at the train station for the noon arriving train. It will be carrying their former gang leader, Ian McDonald who Cooper sent to prison and who's vowing vengeance.
From the gitgo it's made abundantly clear that these are four nasty dudes who the town ought to deal with expeditiously. But the good elements of the town have grown fat and lazy and content to throw the responsibility of law and order on Cooper's shoulders. And he's quitting anyway, going on his honeymoon with his Quaker bride. A new marshal is going to arrive the next day. Why get involved. They want Cooper to just take his problem elsewhere. That view is probably best expressed by Thomas Mitchell in the scene at the church.
Speaking of the scene in the church my favorite business in High Noon is when preacher Morgan Farley tells Cooper how dare he come into the church because a few hours earlier he didn't see fit to get married in that church. What a set of priorities.
Grace Kelly had her breakthrough role in High Noon. She's a Quaker with deeply held pacifist principles. She's marrying a lawman, but one who's quitting that life. Her best scene in the film is with Katy Jurado who is Cooper's former gal pal. Katy explains the facts of life to Grace about marriage and the duty of standing by your man, long before Tammy Wynette ever sung about it. When the time comes, Grace does the right thing.
Like his rival in western films, John Wayne, Gary Cooper had one of the great faces for movie closeups. Back in the day it used to be a running joke about how Cooper's dialog used to be just "yep" and "nope." It was a good deal more than that. But High Noon's plot is carried quite a bit by the many closeup shots of Cooper. His face tells more than ten pages of speech and it keeps the tension of the film going. Man did not win two Academy Awards for nothing.
Of course the theme of High Noon is also expressed in Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington's Academy Award winning song, sung at times during the film by Tex Ritter. However the big hit record of the film was from Frankie Laine. I doubt there has ever been a movie theme song that expressed everything you needed to know about the motivation of the central character in the film. I don't think High Noon would have attained the classic status it has without that song.
Another great performance in the film is Lon Chaney, Jr. as the former town marshal, old and cynical, who'd like to help Cooper out, but at his age and health realizes he'd be more of a hindrance. He's the only one that Cooper understands and forgives.
The final gun battle is choreographed like a ballet, it's that good. Maybe the best ever filmed. Can't describe it, you got to see it.
The interaction of the town's responsibilities for maintaining law and order and Cooper's personal pride and integrity have been dealt with in various ways in other films. I'd check out Rio Bravo, Warlock, Death of a Gunfighter, Welcome to Hard Times, all of these take a different slant on the same themes.
But personally I've always liked what the townspeople did in a Frank Sinatra film, Johnny Concho. That's what the people of Hadleyville should have done right at the start.