High Noon
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, 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.
Plot
In Hadleyville, a small town in New Mexico Territory, Marshal Will Kane, newly married to Amy Fowler, prepares to retire. The happy couple will soon depart to raise a family and run a store in another town. However, word arrives that Frank Miller, a vicious outlaw whom Kane sent to prison, has been released and will arrive by the noon train, one day ahead of the new marshal. Miller's gang—his younger brother Ben, Jack Colby, and Jim Pierce—wait at the station.
Awards
Cast
- Chubby Johnson
- Eve McVeagh
- Gary Cooper
- Grace Kelly
- Harry Harvey
- Harry Morgan
- Harry Shannon
- Howland Chamberlain
- Ian MacDonald
- Jack Elam
- James Millican
- John Doucette
- Katy Jurado
- Larry J. Blake
- Lee Aaker
- Lee Van Cleef
- Lloyd Bridges
- Lon Chaney Jr.
- Morgan Farley
- Otto Kruger
- Robert J. Wilke
- Sheb Wooley
- Thomas Mitchell
- Virginia Christine