0 Comments on High Noon
Trending
Top
New
High Noon
The story of a man who was too proud to run!
The story of a man who was too proud to run!
Drama, Western - 1952
7.9
94%
89
Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.
Director:
High Noon
Head Under Water
(2007)
Something terrible is about to happen in a small town in Germany. Nobody knows the reason why, except one person: Rico Bartsch. The 15-year old grammar school pupil, an absolute outsider, is in love with the most beautiful girl at his school. What in the beginning is a longing that can never be fulfilled will come true at the end of th...
High Noon
Breakheart Pass
(1975)
At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission to a remote army post. But one by one the passengers are being murdered, and their only hope is the mysterious John Deakin, who's being transported to face trial for murder.
High Noon
Band of Outsiders
(1964)
Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or frolicsome romps through the Louvre. Eventually, their romantic view of outlaws pushes them to pla...
High Noon
Just Cause
(1995)
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
High Noon
The Four Feathers
(2002)
The story, set in 1885, follows a British officer (Heath Ledger) who resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers which symbolize cowardice. To redeem his honor he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves the ...

Details

Rated:
PG
Runtime:
85 min
Release date:
9 Jun 1952
Country:
US
Languages:
English, Spanish
Budget:
$730,000
Revenue:
$8,000,000
Awards:
Won 4 Oscars. 18 wins & 12 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Zinnemann carefully and deliberately makes the most of the mood cast by the threat of impending violence.
– William Brogdon,
Variety,
18 Oct 2008
fresh:
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.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
4 Sep 2007
fresh:
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.
– Derek Adams,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
fresh:
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.
– Michael Atkinson,
Village Voice,
27 Apr 2004
fresh:
Regarded as '50s melodrama, it's nearly perfect.
– Stephen Hunter,
Washington Post,
30 May 2003
See more...
Press esc to close