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High Noon was Kelly's second feature film, and it elevated her to stardom. The movie is presented in nearly real time, with close-ups of the clock adding suspense as it ticks toward the noon showdown. The title song, which was sung by Tex Ritter (“High Noon [Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin']”), became a classic.Missing.

High Noon 1952 Youtube

Contents. Appearances originated the character in in 1952. Cooper briefly reprised his High Noon role in an uncredited in the 1959 comedy. Took over the role for in a made-for-TV sequel, (1980).

Played Kane in a 2000 remake of High Noon for the US cable channel. Fictional biography In High Noon, Will Kane is a town marshal of the fictional Hadleyville. 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 on the noon train.

Kane, and the townsfolk who remember Miller, know Miller's visit is for one reason: revenge. Upon his conviction years earlier, Miller swore he would kill Will Kane.

Kane's friends tell him to leave town, which he does briefly, but he feels that running away is not a solution, so he returns to face Miller and the gang. Will tries to find support from his friends and others, but none wants to help - they all tell him to leave town or offer reasons why they can't (or won't) help. Will chooses to stand up against this gang alone, even though it could result in his own death. After a brief gun fight in town, Kane kills the four men. Amy also saves his life by giving up her pacifist religion to kill one of the men. As townspeople come out to offer congratulations, Kane takes off his tin star and throws it in the dirt. The movie ends with Kane and his bride driving out of town to destinations unknown.

High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane, Kane returns to the town of Hadleyville, a year after the events of High Noon, and finds that the town is now in the hands of a corrupt marshal and his two aides. Ward, the man that replaced Kane as marshal, is a tyrant who shoots up the horses Will has just purchased.

Ward is after Ben Irons and his men in order to get the on them, even though Ward knows they are innocent. Ben gets away. Ward pursues him, and Kane decides to help Ben. Ben dies from a gunshot wound.

Ward is going to arrest Kane for helping Ben, but the town rallies together and issues a warrant for Ward's arrest. Kane then again puts on the tin star and shoots Ward to death.

Development Despite the iconic portrayal of the character by Gary Cooper (see below), 'Cooper was not producer 's first choice to play Marshal Will Kane.' Nevertheless, Will Kane is 'one of Cooper's most famous roles.' Lee Majors explained that he accepted the role in the sequel, because 'I've always admired Gary Cooper. And I wanted to do a Western again.' , who directed the recent remake, argued that Tom Skerrit was an ideal actor to take over the role in the remake. Hardy explained that like 'Cooper, he is Mr.

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People know who Tom Skerritt is. They don't treat him like a superstar. They feel he's approachable.' Reception In 1952, Gary Cooper won a and his second for his portrayal of Will Kane.

While refers to the character as 'A Classic Role,' ranked the character fourteenth on its list of the top twenty 'All-Time Coolest Heroes in Pop Culture' in April 2009. The magazine included him on its list because in ' High Noon, Gary Cooper's retiring lawman faces down a killer and his goons despite being deserted by the rest of the town.' Entertainment Weekly went on to cite his most heroic move as when 'Kane's last ally gets cold feet, he tells him to go to his family, and then refuses the help of a teenager.'

Kane was also ranked by the as the. Nevertheless, although Cooper's performance has received considerable praise as indicated above, Majors and Skerritt's performances have not been so positively received.

Referred to Lee Majors as 'sadly miscast' as Kane in the sequel. Entertainment Weekly also contrasted Cooper with Skerritt to Skerritt's disadvantage. Reviewer Ken Tucker reminisces upon 'the all-purpose image of Cooper that's taken hold in the popular imagination: the gaunt, chiseled stone face, a stoic deadpan that rendered Cooper the leading-man, romantic-actor equivalent of.By contrast, Skerritt saunters through the new Noon as if he were still the easygoing, ironic lawman of.' References. Richard Slotkin, Gunfighter nation: the myth of the frontier in twentieth-century America (University of Oklahoma Press, 1998),., March 18, 1959, p., March 21, 1959, p. Jeremy Byman, Showdown at High Noon: Witch-hunts, Critics, and the End of the Western (Scarecrow Press, 2004),.

Howard Hughes, Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoers' Guide to Great Westerns (I.B.Tauris, 2008),. Susan Doll and Christopher Lyon, The Macmillan dictionary of films and filmmakers (Macmillan, 1984), 197. ^ ',' The Dailer Courier (Sunday, August 13, 2000): 8C. ',' The Virgin Islands Daily News (November 8, 1980): 8.

Pat Browne, The guide to United States popular culture (Popular Press, 2001),. Hill, ',' The Washington Post (Aug 20, 2000). ',' Entertainment Weekly 1041 (April 3, 2009): 36. Retrieved 2010-05-21. ERIC MINK, ',' New York Daily News (August 18th 2000).

Ken Tucker, ',' (Aug 18, 2000). External links. ',' The Internet Movie Database.

On the day he gets married and hangs up his badge, Marshal Will Kane is told that a man he sent to prison years before, Frank Miller, is returning on the noon train to exact his revenge. Having initially decided to leave with his new spouse, Will decides he must go back and face Miller. However, when he seeks the help of the townspeople he has protected for so long, they turn their backs on him. It seems Kane may have to face Miller alone, as well as the rest of Miller's gang, who are waiting for him at the station. John Wayne was totally wrong to call this movie un-American. Courage and cowardice are universal emotions, and the attitudes of the characters in High Noon are, I think, incredibly truthful and telling.

I know that if I lived in the Wild West, had a job and family, and was asked to stand up and fight against a gang of gun-toting psychos I would probably not be able to do it. That's why Gary Cooper's Will Kane is such a remarkable character in terms of self-respect, morality and inner strength. It's the way he MUST uphold the law even though it will perhaps cost him his wife and his life. It is the various townfolk with whom most of us will identify, even if it makes us feel shame or unworthiness to admit it. No matter how bravely we act, nor how much we want to think heroically of ourselves, 90% of us would cower in the shadows when the time came to do what Will Kane does in this movie. On his wedding day, dependable lawman Will Kane (Gary Cooper) has just handed in his badge and is preparing to leave town with his bride Amy (Grace Kelly) when he receives devastating news. An old adversary, Frank Miller (Ian MacDonald), has been pardoned for crimes that he should have hanged for and is on his way to Kane's town of Hadleyville to get revenge.

He is due on the noon train, leaving Kane one hour to either run for his life or make preparations to fight. Kane and Amy set off at full gallop, hoping to put some miles between themselves and danger, but Kane doesn't get far before he feels compelled to turn back. With the new sheriff not due for a day, he just can't let go of the extraordinary sense of duty and responsibility he feels towards his town.

However when he gets back to town he gets quite a shock - for no-one has the guts (nor, in some instances, the inclination) to fight alongside him against the Miller gang. As time ticks unstoppably towards noon, Kane gradually realises that if he's going to stop Miller and his boys, he's going to have to do it alone! Cooper's performance is extremely powerful and he received a thoroughly deserved Oscar for it. Kelly is good as his bride, although many viewers will find her character hard to like. Lloyd Bridges has a brilliant early role as Kane's deputy, while the very best of the supporting pack is Katy Jurado as a Latino woman whose 'history' with most of the men in town puts her in an unenviable position when the shooting starts. Fred Zinnemann directs the film outstandingly, making each scene fit into the grander scheme of things with literate precision.

Any aspiring young film-maker wanting to learn how to pace a film correctly should watch High Noon with a close eye, for it is unparallelled as the most perfectly paced film of all-time. The music by Dmitri Tomkin - plus that incredible ballad 'Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling' by Tex Ritter - is just one more element that makes High Noon one of the great masterpieces. There's nothing else to say - if you haven't already, go out and see this film NOW!