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High Noon
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"High Noon" is a 1952 Western film directed by Fred Zinnemann about a town marshal who must face down outlaws alone as the noon hour approaches. The film is considered a classic of the Western genre and became notable for its real-time narrative structure and themes about courage and moral responsibility.
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Film · TMDB
7.7Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.
Cast
- Gary Cooper as Marshal Will Kane
- Thomas Mitchell as Mayor Jonas Henderson
- Lloyd Bridges as Deputy Marshal Harvey Pell
- Katy Jurado as Helen Ramírez
- Grace Kelly as Amy Fowler Kane
- Otto Kruger as Judge Percy Mettrick
Themes
- small town
- gunslinger
- showdown
- fistfight
- u.s. marshal
- shootout
- morality
- black and white
- battle
- justice
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Ratings
IMDb
7.9/10
115,927 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
94%
Metacritic
89/100
- Year
- 1952
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller, Western
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- Won 4 Oscars. 18 wins & 12 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Fred Zinnemann
- Screenplay by
- Carl Foreman
- Based on
- "The Tin Star", 1947 short story in Collier's , by John W. Cunningham
- Produced by
- Stanley Kramer (uncredited)
- Starring
- Gary Cooper Thomas Mitchell Lloyd Bridges Katy Jurado Grace Kelly Otto Kruger Lon Chaney Henry Morgan
- Cinematography
- Floyd Crosby
- Edited by
- Elmo Williams
- Music by
- Dimitri Tiomkin
- Production company
- Stanley Kramer Productions
- Distributed by
- United Artists
- Release date
- July 24, 1952 ( 1952-07-24 )
- Running time
- 85 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $730,000
- Box office
- $12 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 85
- FilmAffinity ID
- 554741
- Image
- High Noon1.JPG
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- Commons category
- High Noon
- publication date
- 1952-07-30
- title
- High Noon
- review score
- 7.9/10
- capital cost
- 730000
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Encyclopedic overview
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, Grace Kelly, Katy Jurado, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, and Otto Kruger. 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.
Though mired in controversy at the time of its release due to its political themes, the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four (Actor, Editing, Score and Song) as well as four Golden Globe Awards (Actor, Supporting Actress, Score, and Black and White Cinematography). The award-winning score was written by Ukrainian/Russian-born composer Dimitri Tiomkin.
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