"nuclear weapons testing. The struggles attending the blacklist were played out metaphorically on the big screen in various ways. As described by film historian James Chapman, ""Carl Foreman, who had refused to testify before the committee, wrote the western ""High Noon"" (1952), in which a town marshal (played, ironically, by friendly witness Gary Cooper) finds himself deserted by the good citizens of Hadleyville (read: Hollywood) when a gang of outlaws who had terrorized the town several years earlier (read: HUAC) returns."" Cooper's lawman cleaned up Hadleyville, but Foreman was forced to leave for Europe to find work. Even more famously,"
"her work in the theater and on television, although she lacked ""vocal horsepower"", and would likely not have had a lengthy stage career. Kelly was performing in Colorado's Elitch Gardens when producer Stanley Kramer offered her a role co-starring opposite Gary Cooper in Fred Zinnemann's ""High Noon"", a western set in a historic old mining town in Columbia, California. She accepted the role, and the film was shot in the late summer/early fall of 1951 over a 28-day shooting schedule in hot weather conditions. She was cast as a ""young Quaker bride to Gary Cooper's stoic Marshall"", and she wore"
"a good town marshal was going to run around town like a chicken with his head cut off asking everyone to help. And who saves him? His Quaker wife. That isn't my idea of a good Western."" Zinnemann responded, ""I admire Hawks very much. I only wish he'd leave my films alone!"" In a 1973 interview, he added, ""I'm rather surprised at [Hawks' and Wayne's] thinking. Sheriffs are people and no two people are alike. The story of ""High Noon"" takes place in the Old West but it is really a story about a man's conflict of conscience. In this"
"noir starring Van Heflin as a haunted POW, Robert Ryan as his hot-tempered former friend, Janet Leigh as Heflin's wife, and Mary Astor as a sympathetic prostitute. Zinnemann considered ""Act of Violence"" the first project in which he ""felt comfortable knowing exactly what I wanted and exactly how to get it."" ""The Men"" (1950) stars Marlon Brando as a paraplegic war veteran. It was Brando's first film. Zinnemann filmed many scenes in a California hospital where real patients served as extras. It was followed by ""Teresa"" (1951), starring Pier Angeli. Perhaps Zinnemann's best-known work is ""High Noon"" (1952), one of"
"many tight close-ups which showed him sweating, and at one point, even crying on screen. Screenwriter Carl Foreman apparently intended ""High Noon"" to be an allegory of Senator Joseph McCarthy's vendetta against alleged Communists. However, Zinnemann disagreed, insisting, late in life, that the issues in the film, for him, were broader, and were more about conscience and independent, uncompromising fearlessness. He says, """"High Noon"" is ""not a Western, as far as I'm concerned; it just happens to be set in the Old West."" Film critic Stephen Prince suggests that the character of Kane actually represents Zinnemann, who tried to create"
"and Fred Zinneman's 1952 western ""High Noon"" are apparent. Writer-director Peter Hyams has transported the characters and motifs from the dusty frontier town of Gary Cooper to the frontiers of space. While Hyams keeps the story barreling along, he also develops a corollary anti-capitalist theme. Io is an outpost for exploitation, and it doesn't make any difference whether the miners are digging gold in the Colorado hills or titanium on Jupiter's moon, the greed of the corporate class will prevail. ""Outland"" marks the return of the classic western hero in a space helmet. His outfit has changed and his environment"
"at Kensal Green Cemetery and the cremated remains were collected from the cemetery. His wife died on December 18, 1997. Zinnemann's training in documentary filmmaking and his personal background contributed to his style as a ""social realist."" With his early films between 1937 and 1942 he began using that technique, and with ""High Noon"" in 1952, possibly his finest film, he created the tense atmosphere by coordinating screen time with real time. Because he started his film career as a cameraman, his movies are strongly oriented toward the visual aspects. He also said that regardless of the size of an"
"actor's part, he spends much time discussing the roles with each actor separately and in depth. ""In this way we make sure long before the filming starts that we are on the same wavelength,"" he says. Zinnemann's films are mostly dramas about lone and principled individuals tested by tragic events, including ""High Noon"" (1952), ""From Here to Eternity"" (1953); ""The Nun's Story"" (1959); ""A Man For All Seasons"" (1966); and ""Julia"" (1977). Regarded as a consummate craftsman, Zinnemann traditionally endowed his work with meticulous attention to detail to create realism, and had an intuitive gift for casting and a preoccupation"
"star (that he threw on the ground at the end of the 1952 original movie) and shoots Ward to death. ""High Noon, Part II"" was released on DVD in 2012. It currently holds a score of 5.2/10 on IMDb. High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane is a 1980 American made-for television western film and a sequel to the classic 1952 film ""High Noon"". It starred Lee Majors in the title role, as well as David Carradine and Pernell Roberts. It first aired on CBS on November 15, 1980,"
"tragic events. According to one historian, Zinnemann's style demonstrated his sense of ""psychological realism and his apparent determination to make worthwhile pictures that are nevertheless highly entertaining."" Among his films were ""The Men"" (1950), ""High Noon"" (1952), ""From Here to Eternity"" (1953), ""Oklahoma!"" (1955), ""The Nun's Story"" (1959), ""A Man For All Seasons"" (1966), ""The Day of the Jackal"" (1973), and ""Julia"" (1977). His films have received 65 Oscar nominations, winning 24. Zinnemann directed and introduced a number of stars in their U.S. film debuts, including Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Pier Angeli, Julie Harris, Brandon deWilde, Montgomery Clift, Shirley Jones"
"about his long career as a naval aviator and his role in the development of aircraft carriers. Cooper's performance and the Technicolor newsreel footage supplied by the United States Navy made the film one of Cooper's most popular during this period. In the next two years, Cooper made four poorly received films: Michael Curtiz' period drama ""Bright Leaf"" (1950), Stuart Heisler's Western melodrama ""Dallas"" (1950), Henry Hathaway's wartime comedy ""You're in the Navy Now"" (1951), and Raoul Walsh's Western action film ""Distant Drums"" (1951). Cooper's most important film during the post-war years was Fred Zinnemann's Western drama ""High Noon"" (1952)"
"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), 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 (Ian MacDonald),"
"High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane is a 1980 American made-for television western film and a sequel to the classic 1952 film ""High Noon"". It starred Lee Majors in the title role, as well as David Carradine and Pernell Roberts. It first aired on CBS on November 15, 1980, in a two-hour time-slot. The film's screenplay was written by famed crime novelist Elmore Leonard. Will Kane returns to the town of Hadleyville, a year after the events of ""High Noon"", and finds that the town is now in"
"High Lonesome (film) High Lonesome is a 1950 American Technicolor Western, period movie, written and directed by Alan Le May, who is famous as the writer for the classic Westerns ""The Searchers"" and ""The Unforgiven"". It is his only directing credit. This film stars John Drew Barrymore (billed as ""John Barrymore, Jr."") and features Chill Wills and Jack Elam. It is set in the Big Bend country of West Texas. A young drifter is found stealing food at Horse Davis' ranch by Boatwhistle, the cook. Another rancher, Pat Farrell, who is engaged to Horse's daughter Abby, believes the boy to"
"channel TBS. In ""High Noon"", Will Kane is a town marshal of the fictional Hadleyville, New Mexico Territory. It is both his wedding day and his last day as a marshal. He is about to leave town with his bride, Amy, to start a new life as a store clerk when the clerk of the telegraph office brings bad news: a man he sent to prison some years earlier, Frank Miller, has been released from prison and is arriving on the noon train. Kane, and the townsfolk who remember Miller, know Miller's visit is for one reason: revenge. Upon his"
"for Best Film Editing (the ""Oscar"") twice: for the boxing drama ""Champion"" in 1949 and for Fred Zinnemann's seminal Western ""High Noon"" in 1952. Although Elmo Williams, who was co-editor of ""High Noon"", indicated in his autobiography that Gerstad's credit was a nominal one. However, in that time-frame, the editorial supervisor/supervising film editor (Gerstad's title in ""High Noon"", and other films in that time-frame) was usually and very often contractually given superior credit to his subordinate editor(s) (in this case, Williams, who consequently received subordinate credit), and one significant responsibility of Gerstad's superior position was in selecting and hiring his"
"May 30. Over the next half-century, Sierra No. 3 pulled tourist excursion trains and appeared in dozens of films, TV shows, and commercials. Among them were ""High Noon"" in 1952, for which Gary Cooper won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and ""Unforgiven"", starring and directed by Clint Eastwood, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture for 1992. The locomotive was often redecorated for various movie and television appearances, one of its most famous roles being the ""Hooterville Cannonball"" from the mid-sixties series ""Petticoat Junction"". False smokestacks were also often installed to alter the appearance of the locomotive. In"
"Ride the High Country Ride the High Country (released in the UK as Guns in the Afternoon) is a 1962 American Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Mariette Hartley. The supporting cast includes Edgar Buchanan, James Drury, Warren Oates, and Ron Starr. The film's script, though credited solely to veteran TV screenwriter N. B. Stone, Jr., was – according to producer Richard E. Lyons – almost entirely the work of Stone's friend and colleague, William S. Roberts, and Peckinpah himself. In 1992, ""Ride the High Country"" was selected for preservation in the National"
"Top Gun (1955 film) Top Gun is a 1955 Western film directed by Ray Nazarro. The plot concerns an ex-gunslinger (Sterling Hayden) who arrives in a small town warning of an impending attack by his old gang. The film features Rod Taylor in one of his first American roles. Rick Martin returns home to Casper, Wyoming, where he is unwanted because of his reputation as a gunslinger. He does have a few friends in town, including Marshal Bat Davis and hotel owner Jim O'Hara. As Rick visits his mother's grave, he notices a marker beside hers with his name on"
"were making together. Fleischer says his RKO contract prevented him from directing ""High Noon"". John Wayne was originally offered the lead role in the film, but turned it down because he felt that Foreman's story was an obvious allegory against blacklisting, which he actively supported. Later, he told an interviewer that he would ""never regret having helped run [Foreman] out of the country"". Cooper was Wayne's longtime friend, and shared his conservative political views; he had been a ""friendly witness"" before HUAC, but did not implicate anyone as a suspected Communist, and later became a vigorous opponent of blacklisting. Ironically,"
"popular imagination: the gaunt, chiseled stone face, a stoic deadpan that rendered Cooper the leading-man, romantic-actor equivalent of Buster Keaton...By contrast, Skerritt saunters through the new ""Noon"" as if he were still the easygoing, ironic lawman of ""Picket Fences""."" Will Kane William ""Will"" Kane is the protagonist of the film ""High Noon"" (1952). He was first played by Gary Cooper, then by Lee Majors in """" (1980), and by Tom Skerritt in ""High Noon"" (2000), a remake for cable television. Gary Cooper originated the character in ""High Noon"" in 1952. Cooper briefly reprised his ""High Noon"" role in an uncredited"
"High Noon (2009 film) High Noon, also known as Nora Roberts' High Noon, is a 2009 television film directed by Peter Markle, which stars Emilie de Ravin and Ivan Sergei. The film is based on the Nora Roberts novel of the same name and is part of the Nora Roberts 2009 movie collection, which also includes ""Northern Lights"", ""Midnight Bayou"", and ""Tribute"". The film debuted April 4, 2009 on Lifetime Television. Divorced crisis negotiator police lieutenant Phoebe MacNamara (de Ravin) struggles with the pressures of her job, raising her young daughter Carly, facing mounting bills, and taking care of her"
"won star Jose Ferrer a Best Actor Oscar. It was adapted from Brian Hooker's English translation of Edmond Rostand's ""Cyrano de Bergerac"". Without Kramer, Foreman worked on ""Young Man with a Horn"" (1950), with Douglas. Foreman and Kramer's next collaboration was the Western, ""High Noon"". During production of the film, Foreman was summoned to appear before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC). He testified that he had been a member of the American Communist Party more than ten years earlier while still a young man but had become disillusioned with the Party and quit. As a result of his"
"quickly his boss' utter incompetence in the office. Tetley receives a threatening note from a gunslinger challenging this purported hero to a gunfight when he arrives on the noon stage, at which point the story becomes a parody of iconic Western movie ""High Noon"" (1952). Colton sets to teaching the shivering-in-his-boots sheriff courage and gunmanship. Sherman's semi-serious and sympathetic performance was strong and his presence an affable one. In 1966, Sherman visited Australia. He did a television series in Melbourne, Victoria, for a live audience. During the performance, he sang a parody of ""Molly Malone."" It included a play on"
"a ""suitably demure vaguely Victorian dress"", alongside Gary Cooper, who was 28 years her senior. The movie was released in the summer of 1952. ""High Noon"" garnered four Academy Awards, and has since been ranked among the best films of all time. However, ""High Noon"" was not the film that made Kelly a movie star, despite it now being one of her best-known films. As biographer H. Haughland states: ""Miss Kelly's acting did not excite the critics, or live up to her own expectations."" Some critics scoffed at the conclusion of the film in which Cooper's character has to be"
"a five-year contract during which time he would produce twenty films. However, Kramer would later state that the agreement was ""one of the most dangerous and foolhardy moves of my entire career."" He agreed to the commitment because of his ""deep-seated desire to direct,"" he states, along with the security of ready studio financing. He finished his last independent production, ""High Noon"" (1952), a Western drama directed by Fred Zinnemann. The movie was well received, winning four Oscars, as well as three other nominations. Unfortunately, ""High Noon""'s production and release intersected with the Red Scare. Writer, producer and partner Carl"
"less menacing. Van Cleef refused, and was cast instead as Colby, the only role of his career without a single line of dialog. ""High Noon"" was filmed in the late summer/early fall of 1951 in several locations in California. The opening scenes, under the credits, were shot at Iverson Movie Ranch near Los Angeles. A few town scenes were shot in Columbia State Historic Park, a preserved Gold Rush mining town near Sonora, but most of the street scenes were filmed on the Columbia lot in Burbank. St. Joseph's Church in Tuolumne City was used for exterior shots of the"
"he is about to kill Horse, and as Meagan cradles the wounded Cooncat, Pat and Horse agree to take him under their wing. John Drew Barrymore was the son of John Barrymore and the father of Drew Barrymore. The movie was filmed on location in Antelope Springs and Marfa, Presidio County, Texas. High Lonesome (film) High Lonesome is a 1950 American Technicolor Western, period movie, written and directed by Alan Le May, who is famous as the writer for the classic Westerns ""The Searchers"" and ""The Unforgiven"". It is his only directing credit. This film stars John Drew Barrymore (billed"
"High Noon (video game) High Noon (Highnoon on the title screen) is a western-themed shoot 'em up game written for the Commodore 64 and published by Ocean Software in 1984. The game has five levels. The player takes the role of the good (white) sheriff in the American Old West. He must defend his town against outlaws looking to abduct women from the local """"Saucy Sue's Saloon"""" and rob the local bank, by shooting them. Shooting can be done in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal direction. The background music is the theme from the movie ""High Noon"" arranged by David"
"to the effectiveness of his performance. Considered one of the first ""adult"" Westerns for its theme of moral courage, ""High Noon"" received enthusiastic reviews for its artistry, with ""Time"" magazine placing it in the ranks of ""Stagecoach"" and ""The Gunfighter"". Bosley Crowther, in ""The New York Times"", wrote that Cooper was ""at the top of his form"", and John McCarten, in ""The New Yorker"", wrote that Cooper was never more effective. The film earned $3.75 million in the United States and $18 million worldwide. Following the example of his friend James Stewart, Cooper accepted a lower salary in exchange for"
"Will Kane William ""Will"" Kane is the protagonist of the film ""High Noon"" (1952). He was first played by Gary Cooper, then by Lee Majors in """" (1980), and by Tom Skerritt in ""High Noon"" (2000), a remake for cable television. Gary Cooper originated the character in ""High Noon"" in 1952. Cooper briefly reprised his ""High Noon"" role in an uncredited cameo appearance in the 1959 Bob Hope comedy ""Alias Jesse James"". Lee Majors took over the role for in a made-for-TV sequel, """" (1980). Tom Skerritt played Kane in a 2000 remake of ""High Noon"" for the US cable"
"him, especially when they believe that he has killed the town sheriff (Emile Meyer). Ballard tries to prove his innocence and expose McCarty (who appears to be a veiled reference to Senator Joseph McCarthy). Silver Lode (film) Silver Lode is a 1954 American Technicolor Western film directed by Allan Dwan and starring John Payne, Lizabeth Scott and Dan Duryea. The film, with a similar plot to ""High Noon"", tells the story of Dan Ballard (John Payne) and Rose Evans (Lizabeth Scott), who are about to be married on the Fourth of July when Marshal Fred McCarty (Dan Duryea) and his"
"the screenplay. By the time the documentary aired, most of the principals were dead, including Kramer, Foreman, Zinnemann, and Cooper. Victor Navasky, author of ""Naming Names"", a definitive account of the Hollywood blacklist, told a reporter that, based on his interviews with Kramer's widow and others, the documentary seemed ""one-sided, and the problem is it makes a villain out of Stanley Kramer, when it was more complicated than that"". Richard Fleischer later claimed he helped Carl Foreman develop the story of ""High Noon"" over eight weeks while driving to and from the set of ""The Clay Pigeon"" (1949) which they"