"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, 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"
"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,"
"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"
"and John Wayne ""High Noon"" – Dimitri Tiomkin ""5 Fingers"" – Michael Wilson Millard Mitchell – ""My Six Convicts"" Katy Jurado – ""High Noon"" Walt Disney ""My Cousin Rachel"" – Richard Burton ""Moulin Rouge"" – Colette Marchand ""The Member of the Wedding"" – Brandon deWilde 10th Golden Globe Awards The 10th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1952 films, were held on February 26, 1953, at the Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles) in Los Angeles. Gary Cooper – ""High Noon"" Donald O'Connor – ""Singin' in the Rain"" Shirley Booth – ""Come Back, Little Sheba"" Susan Hayward – ""With"
"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),"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"High Voltage (1929 film) High Voltage (1929) is an American pre-Code film produced by Pathé Exchange and directed by Howard Higgin. The film stars William Boyd, Diane Ellis, Owen Moore, Phillips Smalley, Billy Bevan, and Carole Lombard in her feature-length ""talkie"" debut, billed as ""Carol Lombard."" This film is in the public domain. The film begins with a bus driving along a snow-covered roadway in the Sierra Nevada between Nevada City, California, and Reno, Nevada. Soon the vehicle gets hopelessly stuck in deep snow forty miles from the nearest town. Needing shelter, the driver ""Gus"" (Billy Bevan) and his four"
"Boone, Trail Blazer"" (1957), ""The Cyclops"" (1957) and ""The Alligator People"" (1959). Chaney established himself as a favorite of producer Stanley Kramer; in addition to playing a key supporting role in ""High Noon"" (1952) (starring Gary Cooper), he also appeared in ""Not as a Stranger"" (1955)—a hospital melodrama featuring Robert Mitchum and Frank Sinatra—and ""The Defiant Ones"" (1958, starring Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier). Kramer told the press at the time that whenever a script came in with a role too difficult for most actors in Hollywood, he called Chaney. One of his best known roles was a 1952 live"
"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"
"the first 25 American films chosen in 1989 for the National Film Registry. With its psychological and moral examinations of its lawman hero Marshall Will Kane, played by Gary Cooper and its innovative chronology whereby screen time approximated the 80-minute countdown to the confrontational hour, the film broke the mold of the formulaic western. Working closely with cinematographer and longtime friend Floyd Crosby, he shot without filters, giving the landscape a harsh ""newsreel"" quality that clashed with the more painterly cinematography of John Ford's westerns. During production he established a strong rapport with Gary Cooper, photographing the aging actor in"
"Roberta Haynes Roberta Haynes (born August 19, 1929, Wichita Falls, Texas) is a retired American actress, is an actress, active from 1949-89. She was born August 19, 1929 as Roberta Arline Schack to William and Jewel Schack. She was raised in Toronto and then California. She played significant roles in the 1953 films ""Return to Paradise"" ""High Noon"", and ""Gun Fury"" and in 1957's ""Hell Ship Mutiny"". During the filming of High Noon, Haynes alleges she was ""chased around the office"" by the producer, Jerry Wald. In 1954, Haynes was part of a group of entertainers that entertained United States"
"He turned 100 in April 2013. Elmo Williams died at his home in Brookings on November 25, 2015, at the age of 102. Elmo Williams James Elmo Williams (April 30, 1913 – November 25, 2015) was an American film and television editor, producer, director and executive. His work on the film ""High Noon"" (1952) received the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. In 2006, Williams published ""Elmo Williams: A Hollywood Memoir"". Among the films that Williams edited are ""High Noon"" (1952), ""20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"" (1954) and ""The Vikings"" (1958). Williams was involved in the production of ""The Longest"
"Elmo Williams James Elmo Williams (April 30, 1913 – November 25, 2015) was an American film and television editor, producer, director and executive. His work on the film ""High Noon"" (1952) received the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. In 2006, Williams published ""Elmo Williams: A Hollywood Memoir"". Among the films that Williams edited are ""High Noon"" (1952), ""20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"" (1954) and ""The Vikings"" (1958). Williams was involved in the production of ""The Longest Day"" (1962) and ""Cleopatra"" (1963), and he was a producer of the film ""Tora! Tora! Tora!"" (1970). Between 1971 and 1974 Williams was"
"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,"
"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"
"against the popular will. Any time you're alone and you feel you're not getting the support you need, Cooper's Will Kane becomes the perfect metaphor."" Ronald Reagan cited ""High Noon"" as his favorite film, due to the protagonist's strong commitment to duty and the law. By contrast, John Wayne told an interviewer that he considered ""High Noon"" ""the most un-American thing I've ever seen in my whole life"", and later teamed with director Howard Hawks to make ""Rio Bravo"" in response. ""I made ""Rio Bravo"" because I didn't like ""High Noon"","" Hawks explained. ""Neither did Duke [Wayne]. I didn't think"
"Katherine Cannon Katherine Cannon (born September 6, 1953) is an American actress. Her early roles included ""Fools' Parade"" (1971), ""Private Duty Nurses"" (1971), ""Women in Chains"" (1972), Emergency! (1973), Baa Baa Black Sheep (TV series) (1977–1978) as LCDR Dottie Dixon (Head Nurse), and CHiPs (1978 and 1981) as female trucker Robbie Davis, but she first attracted notice in """" (1980) playing Amy Kane, the part originated by Grace Kelly in ""High Noon"". She later played the school teacher, Mae Woodward, in the TV series, ""Father Murphy"", and appeared in the sci-fi thriller ""The Hidden"" in 1987. She is currently best"
"and Sheb Wooley, he played one of the ""three men waiting at the station"" in ""High Noon"" (1952). Wilke appeared in many, if not most, television westerns, including seven episodes each of NBC's ""Laramie"" and CBS's ""Gunsmoke"". He appeared eight times from 1951-1953 on the syndicated western series ""The Range Rider"", starring Jock Mahoney and Dick Jones. He was a guest star five times thereafter on ""Cheyenne"", five times on ""Bonanza"", four times on ""Wagon Train"" and ""Death Valley Days"", and three times on Clint Eastwood's ""Rawhide"", Duncan Renaldo's ""The Cisco Kid"", Pat Conway's ""Tombstone Territory"", and Fess Parker's ""Daniel"
"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"
"Infante, brought her fame. In 1952, she appeared in ""High Noon"" with Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly, earning a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. During the 1950s, she participated in several Hollywood productions such as ""Arrowhead"" (1953, with Charlton Heston), ""Broken Lance"" (1954, with Spencer Tracy for which she received an Academy Award nomination), ""Trapeze"" (1955, with Burt Lancaster), ""One-Eyed Jacks"" (1959, directed by Marlon Brando), ""Barabbas"", ""Stay Away, Joe"" (1968, opposite Elvis Presley), ""Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid"" (1973), and others. Her last Hollywood film was ""The Hi-Lo Country"" (1998), directed by Stephen Frears. Anthony Quinn starred"
"The Big Sky (film) The Big Sky is a 1952 American Western film produced and directed by Howard Hawks, based on the novel of the same name. The cast includes Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt and Arthur Hunnicutt, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Though not considered among Hawks's major achievements by most critics, the film was chosen by Jonathan Rosenbaum for his alternative list of the Top 100 American Films. In 1832, Jim Deakins (Kirk Douglas) is travelling in the wilderness when he encounters an initially hostile Boone Caudill (Dewey Martin). However, they"
"Raoul Walsh Raoul A. Walsh (March 11, 1887December 31, 1980) was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and the brother of the silent screen actor George Walsh. He was known for portraying John Wilkes Booth in the silent classic ""The Birth of a Nation"" (1915) and for directing such films as ""The Big Trail"" (1930), starring John Wayne, ""High Sierra"" (1941), starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart; and ""White Heat"" (1949), starring James Cagney and Edmond O'Brien. He directed his last film in 1964. Walsh was born in New"
"High Time (film) High Time is a 1960 American comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and starring Bing Crosby, Fabian, Tuesday Weld, and Nicole Maurey. The film is told from the perspective of a middle-aged man who enters the world of a new generation of postwar youth. In the years since its release, ""High Time"" has come to be viewed as a comedic study of the slowly emerging generation gap between the music and mores of an older generation and postwar youth, as well as an inadvertent time capsule of American adolescents and lifestyles in 1960. Wealthy restaurateur Harvey Howard"
"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"
"Climbing High Climbing High is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Carol Reed and produced by Michael Balcon with a screenplay by Sonnie Hale, Marion Dix and Lesser Samuels. It stars Jessie Matthews, Michael Redgrave, Noel Madison, Margaret Vyner and Alistair Sim, and was first released in the U.K. in November 1938. Nicky Brooke (Michael Redgrave) a wealthy young man who despite his engagement to the aristocratic (and broke) Lady Constance Westaker (Margaret Vyner) falls for hard-up model Diana Castles (Jessie Matthews) after nearly running her over with his car. In an effort to distance himself from 'tabloid' created"
"(""The Ballad of High Noon""). At its opening preview to the press, the film, which starred Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly, did badly. Tiomkin writes that ""film experts agreed that the picture was a flat failure... The producers hesitated to release the picture."" Tiomkin bought the rights to the song and released it as a single for the popular music market, with singer Frankie Laine. The record became an immediate success worldwide. Based on the song's popularity, the studio released the film four months later, with the words sung by country western star Tex Ritter. The film received seven Academy"
"cousins of western feature films such as ""Shane"" (1953), with Alan Ladd and ""High Noon"" (1952), starring Gary Cooper"" The program was set in the post-Civil War United States. The program opened with a trumpet theme by Jerry Goldsmith and this introduction: The character's full name is Jeremy Brian Kendall. This was revealed in the episode ""The Lost Mine."" Kendall was described as an ""elegant and icily effective ... veteran of the British Army in India."" Written, produced and directed by Antony Ellis, it followed the adventures of journalist Kendall as he roamed the Western United States in search of"
"the Head of Production for 20th Century Fox. Williams edited the film ""Design for Death"" (1947), which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Williams won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for his work on 1952's ""High Noon"" (directed by Fred Zinnemann and co-edited with Harry W. Gerstad, although he was subordinate to Gerstad), and was nominated again for 1954's ""20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"" (directed by Richard Fleischer). The editing of ""High Noon"" is probably Williams' most studied accomplishment. Critic James Berardinelli wrote, """"High Noon's"" tension comes through Kane's desperation, aided in no small part by"
"he would be one of cinema's top money-making stars. From 1936 to 1957, Cooper ranked 18 times among the top ten box office attractions—a record when he died in 1961, and later surpassed only by John Wayne, who ranked among the top ten 25 times, Clint Eastwood (21 times) and Tom Cruise (20 times). Cooper was nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award five times and won twice, for ""Sergeant York"" (1942) and ""High Noon"" (1952). The latter film boosted his popularity, resulting in him being the number one box office attraction in 1953. Cooper received a third Academy Award—an"