. High Noon

High Noon.

High Noon is an Classic American western film. It was made in Hollywood in 1952 and directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. The film tells in real time the story of a town marshall who is forced to face a gang of killers by himself and alone. The screenplay of this movie was written by Carl Foreman, and it was based on John W.Cunningham's Collier's magazine short story, "The Tin Star."

In 1989, the movie High Noon was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", entering the registry during the latter's first year of existence. The film is #27 on the American Film Institute's 2007 list of great films.

Will Kane (Gary Cooper), the longtime marshall of Hadleyville, in New Mexico Territory, has just married pacifist Quaker Amy (Grace Kelly) and he has also turned in his badge. He prepares to move away to become a storekeeper somewhere. Then the town learns that Frank Miller (Ian MacDonald), a criminal Marshall Kane has brought to justice, is due to arrive on the noon train.

Frank Miller had been sentenced to hang, but was pardoned for reasons never stated in the story. In court, he had vowed to get revenge on Marshall Kane and anyone else who got in his way. His three gang members are waiting for him at the station. The worried townspeople encourage Marshall Kane to leave, hoping to defuse the situation.

Marshall Kane and his wife leave town, but fearing that the gang will still hunt him down, Kane turns back. He reclaims his badge and scours the complete town for some deputies — even interrupting Sunday church services — but while many townspeople profess to admire Kane, only a fourteen-year-old boy is willing to lend him a hand.

His deputy, Harvey Pell (Lloyd Bridges), resigns when he hears Miller is returniong. His former lover, Helen Ramírez (Katy Jurado), supports him, but there is little that she can do to help him. Disgusted, she sells her business and prepares to leave town. Kane's wife threatens to leave on the noon train with or without him, but he stubbornly refuses to give in, and waites for Frank Miller.

In the end, Kane faces the four gunmen alone. He guns down two of Miller's men, though he himself is wounded in the arm. Helen Ramirez and Amy both board the train, but Amy gets off when she hears the sound of gunfire. Amy chooses her husband's life over her religious beliefs and kills the third gunman by shooting him in the back. Frank Miller then takes her hostage and offers to trade her for Marshall Kane. Kane agrees, coming out into the open. Amy, however, claws in Miller's face, causing him to release her. Kane then shoots and kills him. As the townspeople emerge from their shelters, Kane contemptuously throws his Marshal's star in the dirt and leaves town with his wife, without looking back......

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