| | High Noon DVD (5 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Recommended DVDs, Classic Movies, Westerns Videos, Essential Cinema, Self-Discovery, Heroes, Character Study, AFI Top 100 Thrills, AFI Top 100 (1997), AFI Top 100, AFI Top 100 Movie Songs, AFI Top 50 Heroes | | Starring | Thomas Mitchell, Gary Cooper, Lloyd Bridges, Grace Kelly, Katy Jurado, Harry Morgan, Lon Chaney, Jr., Otto Kruger, Ian MacDonald, Eve McVeagh | | Director | Fred Zinnemann | | Composer | Dimitri Tiomkin | | Director of Photography | Floyd Crosby | | Editor | Harry Gerstad | | Producer | Stanley Kramer, Elmo Williams | | Production Designer | Rudolph Sternad | | Screenwriter | Carl Foreman |
Black & White; Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Bio/Filmographies; Soundtrack English; Director's Comments As Sheriff Will Kane prepares to retire from his law-making, gun-fighting duties and marry his pacifist girlfriend, he receives word that a man he sent to prison has been pardoned. Kane initially escapes, but returns to protect the town from this killer and his band of outlaws only to find hostility and resentment among the uncooperative townsfolk. Gary Cooper is Hollywood's perfect hero, the very embodiment of integrity and grace in this greatest of Westerns. As a newly married town marshal, he must balance an innate sense of justice and duty with loyalty to his beautiful new--and pacifist--bride when he is left by an ungrateful town to face a gang of deadly outlaws alone. As we watch spellbound, film time is real time as the showdown grows ever closer. HIGH NOON is a masterpiece that is frequently interpreted as a parable about artists left to "stand alone" and face persecution during the HUAC Hollywood blacklisting. However, Howard Hawks allegedly devised RIO BRAVO as an answer to the film's "wimpiness," and John Wayne once declared HIGH NOON as un-American--he was apparently offended by the ending of the film, which shows Sheriff Kane removing his badge and tossing it in the dirt. HIGH NOON was an original selection to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1989.
The New York Film Critics chose HIGH NOON as Best Film of 1952 and named Fred Zinnemann Best Director of 1952.
Jack Elam, who would make a career out of being an often drunk minor character in Westerns, is the man in the drunk tank in HIGH NOON.
A made-for-TV sequel was aired in 1980. "High Noon Part II: Return of Will Kane" starred Lee Majors in the Gary Cooper role, joined by David Carradine, J. A. Preston, Pernell Roberts, and M. Emmet Walsh.
Academy Award Nominations: 7, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay. High Noon Reviews: "...Filmdom's definitive dusty-street shootout..."
-- Mike Clark, USA Today "...A classic Western..."
-- Geoffrey Macnab, Sight and Sound "...The almost silent final 15 minutes have more excitement than most of today's volume-cranked blockbusters can even dream of..."-- Ceri Thomas, Total Film "...Gary Cooper forged a new kind of hero as a lawman left swinging in the wind. Also innovative was its use of real time..."
-- Entertainment Weekly Staff, Entertainment Weekly "[A] new kind of American fable: the socially conscious western..."
-- Premiere Staff, Premiere "Director Fred Zinnemann's iconic Western plays like a Johnny Cash song..." -- Grade: B-- Jeff Labrecque, Entertainment Weekly High Noon | List Price | $19.98 (You save $4.93) | | Studio | Artisan | | Orig Year | 1952 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  1421  | | CD Universe Part number | 5041803 | | Catalog number | 12571 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Oct 22, 2002 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 85 Minutes | | Additional Info | Anniversary Edition; Collector's Edition | | Movie Details | B&W; Digitally Mastered; Anniversary Edition; Collector's Edition; 50th Anniversary Edition |
High Noon DVD Region 1
Keep Case
Full Frame -
1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono - English
Disc: THX
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary: Maria Cooper-Janis, Jonathan Foreman, Tim Zinneman, John Ritter
Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer
Documentary:
1. THE MAKING OF HIGH NOON - Leonard Maltin - Host
2. BEHIND HIGH NOON
Interactive Features:
Scene Access
Interactive Menus
Track Access:
1. DO NOT FORSAKE ME, OH MY DARLIN'
Text/Photo Galleries:
Production Stills
High Noon Video 3:10 to Yuma, Angel and the Badman, Bad Day at Black Rock, Die Hard, Dirty Harry, Essential John Ford Collection, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Gary Cooper Collection, Gunsmoke - 50th Anniversary: Vol. 1, Gunsmoke - Season 3 Volume 2, High Plains Drifter, Key Largo, Last Train from Gun Hill, Magnificent Seven, Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Out of Time (2003)/Walking Tall (2004), Outland, Ox-Bow Incident, Pale Rider, Rio Bravo, Tall in the Saddle, Warrior, Yojimbo High Noon DVD Awards | Best Actor, Academy Awards, 1952 - Gary Cooper | | Best Film Editing, Academy Awards, 1952 - Harry Gerstad | | Best Film Editing, Academy Awards, 1952 | | Best Original Score, Academy Awards, 1952 - Dimitri Tiomkin | | Best Original Song, Academy Awards, 1952 - Dimitri Tiomkin | | Best Original Song, Academy Awards, 1952 - Ned Washington |
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