High Noon (film)
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1952 theatrical poster
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| Directed by | Fred Zinnemann |
| Produced by | Stanley Kramer |
| Screenplay by | Carl Foreman |
| Based on | "The Tin Star" by John W. Cunningham |
| Starring |
Gary Cooper Thomas Mitchell Lloyd Bridges Katy Jurado Grace Kelly Otto Kruger Lon Chaney Jr. Harry Morgan Eve McVeagh |
| Music by | Dimitri Tiomkin |
| Cinematography | Floyd Crosby |
| Edited by |
Elmo Williams Harry W. Gerstad |
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Stanley Kramer Productions
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time
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85 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $730,000 |
| Box office | $12 million |
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, depicted in real time, centers around a town marshal, torn between his sense of duty and love for his new bride, who must face a gang of killers alone.
Though mired in controversy with political overtones at the time of its release, the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, and won four (Actor, Editing, Music-Score, and Music-Song) as well as four Golden Globe Awards (Actor, Supporting Actress, Score, and Cinematography-Black and White). The award-winning score was written by Russian-born composer Dimitri Tiomkin.
High Noon was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" in 1989, the NFR's first year of existence.
In Hadleyville, a small town in New Mexico Territory, Marshal Will Kane (Cooper), newly married to Amy Fowler (Grace Kelly), is preparing to retire. The happy couple is departing for a new life, raising a family and running a store in another town; but word arrives that Frank Miller (Ian MacDonald), a vicious outlaw who Kane sent to jail, has been released, and is arriving on the noon train. Miller's gang—his younger brother Ben (Sheb Wooley), Jack Colby (Lee Van Cleef), and Jim Pierce (Robert J. Wilke)—await his arrival at the train station; it is clear that Miller intends to exact revenge.
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