High Noon 1952

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 85 min

genre: drama

theme: real time

director: Fred Zinnemann

Score: 8 / 10

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 for a new life: 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—await his arrival at the train station.

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More details

author	Carl Foreman
award	Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
contentLocation	Kansas New Mexico
director	Fred Zinnemann
editor	Elmo Williams Harry W. Gerstad
genre	drama western
keywords	church kill law enforcement married marshal new life new mexico territory newly married noon old friends open pacifist quaker religious belief small town train station wait will kane
musicBy	Dimitri Tiomkin
nomination	Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
producer	Stanley Kramer
productionCompany	Stanley Kramer Productions
publisher	United Artists
theme	real time