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High Noon
Former marshal Will Kane is preparing to leave with his new bride, Amy, when he learns that local criminal, his deadly enemy, has been set free, is coming to seek revenge and his own town refuses to help him.
28 June 1914, Great Falls, Montana, USA
13 June 1890, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
3 October 1898, Mamaroneck, New York, USA
10 February 1906, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
18 May 1914, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
15 July 1919, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
16 January 1924, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
10 April 1915, Detroit, Michigan, USA
10 April 1921, Erick, Oklahoma, USA
7 May 1901, Helena, Montana, USA
12 November 1929, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
6 September 1885, Toledo, Ohio, USA
15 January 1913, San Leandro, California, USA
9 January 1925, Somerville, New Jersey, USA
11 July 1892, Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
August 22, 2012
High Noon isn't really a masterpiece, and if you're a fan of more honest Westerns, it's hard not to notice Zinnemann's general lack of interest throughout. But it is a tense, effective little film.
July 26, 2011
Deserving of its label as a true classic, and essential viewing.
February 22, 2017
High Noon reflected the heightened fear of the Soviets in the '50s, now similar to the xenophobia that has been raised and further inflamed by our political leaders.
July 26, 2011
File under 'classic'.
February 09, 2006
High Noon won a fistful of Oscars, but in these days of pasteboard screen machismo, it's worth seeing simply as the anatomy of what it took to make a man before the myth turned sour.
January 03, 2016
Deserving of its classic western status... although for a movie predicated on its titular twelve o'clock showdown, the gunfight itself is oddly anticlimactic.
July 26, 2011
High Noon combines its points about good citizenship with some excellent picturemaking.
April 27, 2004
More than a half-century later, Foreman was right after all: High Noon is a scorching and sour portrait of American complacence and capacity for collaborationism.
May 30, 2003
Regarded as '50s melodrama, it's nearly perfect.
September 04, 2007
Some of the results ring false, but the memorable theme song and some equally memorable character acting (by Thomas Mitchell and Lon Chaney Jr. more than Lloyd Bridges and Katy Jurado) help things along.
October 18, 2008
Zinnemann carefully and deliberately makes the most of the mood cast by the threat of impending violence.
