Average Rating: 8.8/10
Reviews Counted: 46
Fresh: 44 | Rotten: 2
A classic of the Western genre that broke with many of the traditions at the time, High Noon endures -- in no small part thanks to Gary Cooper's defiant, Oscar-winning performance.
Average Rating: 8.5/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 0
A classic of the Western genre that broke with many of the traditions at the time, High Noon endures -- in no small part thanks to Gary Cooper's defiant, Oscar-winning performance.
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This Western classic stars Gary Cooper as Hadleyville marshal Will Kane, about to retire from office and go on his honeymoon with his new Quaker bride, Amy (Grace Kelly). But his happiness is short-lived when he is informed that the Miller gang, whose leader (Ian McDonald) Will had arrested, is due on the 12:00 train. Pacifist Amy urges Will to leave town and forget about the Millers, but this isn't his style; protecting Hadleyburg has always been his duty, and it remains so now. But when he
Jul 24, 1952 Wide
Oct 23, 2001
United Artists
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High Noon combines its points about good citizenship with some excellent picturemaking.
Top CriticZinnemann carefully and deliberately makes the most of the mood cast by the threat of impending violence.
Some of the results ring false, but the memorable theme song and some equally memorable character acting (by Thomas Mitchell and Lon Chaney Jr. more than Lloyd Bridges and Katy Jurado) help things along.
More than a half-century later, Foreman was right after all: High Noon is a scorching and sour portrait of American complacence and capacity for collaborationism.
Regarded as '50s melodrama, it's nearly perfect.
Meaningful in its implications, as well as loaded with interest and suspense, High Noon is a western to challenge Stagecoach for the all-time championship.
File under 'classic'.
Deserving of its label as a true classic, and essential viewing.
Tense 1950s Western is still a cinema classic.
Carl Foreman's brilliant screenplay pays due respect to each character, no matter how sad or loathsome.
... at heart it's a lean, dusty Western classic set to the real time of a ticking clock.
One of top five westerns of all time w/Cooper's Oscar winning role. Powerful.
One of the essentials
One of the most overestimated Westerns in film history, High Noon is schematic and more of a reflection of the times in which it was made than the classic it's considered to be, though Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly are excellent.
High Noon won a fistful of Oscars, but in these days of pasteboard screen machismo, it's worth seeing simply as the anatomy of what it took to make a man before the myth turned sour.
A simple, somewhat creaky tribute to defiant courageousness.
Drop-dead brilliant Western Noir.
'High Noon' deserves certain praise for the legacy it beholds and the story it tells. The performances may be overrated because all Cooper has to do is look weary and nervous. However, 'High Noon' still stands as a taut, enduring western. One that will be modeled after in years to come.
July 6, 2011Super Reviewer
Meh. It may be considered a classic, but High Noon's film strips are just John Ford's toilet paper.
March 29, 2011Super Reviewer
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