| | High Noon DVD (1 Customer Review)
| 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 |
A 2-disc collector's edition of the classic western starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. Features the 50-minute documentary 'Inside 'High Noon,'' full-length Tex Ritter performance of the Oscar-winning original song, Tex Ritter Museum featurette, making-of hosted by Leonard Maltin and lots more. 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 $5.33) | | Studio | Lions Gate Home Entertainment | | Orig Year | 1952 | | All Time Sales Rank |  25234  | | CD Universe Part number | 7655595 | | Catalog number | 24085 | | Discs | 2 | | Release Date | Jun 10, 2008 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 85 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Collector's Edition; Subtitled | | Movie Details | B&W; Widescreen; Collector's Edition; Subtitled; Widescreen Edition; 2-Disc Set |
High Noon Movie Review Average Rating: (3 out of 5 stars)  Cooper, Kelly, Do Not Forsake me!
Still as great a movie as the first time I saw it. A classic western, a spectacular cast, a Tex Ritter recording of a Dimitri Tiomkin theme that stands the test of time.
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This version of "High Noon" was a 100% disappointment. It was full of commentary and no movie. The purpose of purchasing "High Noon" was to enjoy the actual movie. I wil be returning the movie with great disappointment.
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It would be better to classify this "western" as a masterpiece of suspense, there are very few movies that can match it. Gary Cooper richly deserved his Academy Award, playing a decent man who has been trapped by perverse circumstances. Dimiti Tiomkin's music really winds the tension up, until it is almost unbearable. There are many familiar faces in the supporting cast and they all help make this the classic of classics.
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Milestone western
Probably the best classic western. Set new standards for story lines. The "realtime" timeline, where the length of the movie is the span of time in the story is unique to this day.
Gary Cooper was great as a man standing up for what he believes, even knowing it could be his undoing. Great ending as he spurns the townfolk who wouldn't stand by him.
One of the few movies garnering an appology from a Chicago Trib movie critic who panned it as "Your basic shoot'em up oater!" without having bothered to see it first.
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High Noon DVD 2-Disc Set - Keep Case
Widescreen
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Subtitles - English, Spansih
Aditional Release Material:
Audio Commentary
Documentaries -
1. INSIDE HIGH NOON
2. TEX RITTER: A VISIT TO CARTHAGE TEXAS
3. BEHIND HIGH NOON
Featurettes -
1. The Making of HIGH NOON - Hosted by Leaonard Maltin
2. Full-length Tex Ritter Performance of Oscar-Winning Song
3. Radio Broadcast with Tex Ritter (Audio)
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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