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High Noon
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High Noon is a 1952 American black-and-white Western film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The screenplay was written by Carl Foreman, who also served as a producer alongside Stanley Kramer. The cast includes Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Katy Jurado, and Eve McVeagh. Dimitri Tiomkin composed the music, while Floyd Crosby was the director of photography and Elmo Williams was the film editor. The narrative is set in Kansas and New Mexico.
Produced by Stanley Kramer Productions and distributed by United Artists, the film has a runtime of 85 minutes. It was released on June 9, 1952, and is also available via video on demand through Netflix. The movie received the Academy Award for Best Actor and Best Film Editing, as well as the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films award. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay.
The film holds a 7.9 rating on IMDb and a 94% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Its Metascore is 89. The production had a budget of 730,000 and generated 8,000,000 in revenue. It is rated PG.
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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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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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