High Noon [Olive Signature] [Blu-ray]

Overview

In this classic western, a marshal prepares to retire from law enforcement because of his marriage to a Quaker. But upon learning that four outlaws will converge on the town at noon to kill him, he is torn between his sense of duty and his love for his pacifist bride.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/20/2016
UPC:	0887090600200
Original Release:	1952
Rating:	NR
Source:	Olive
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[B&W]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:25:00

Special Features

Mastered from new 4K restoration; "A Ticking Clock" Academy Award nominee Mark Goldblatt on the editing of High Noon; "A Stanley Kramer Production" - Michael Schlesinger on the eminent producer of High Noon; "Imitation of Life: The Hollywood Blacklist and High Noon" - with Larry Ceplair and blacklisted Screenwriter Walter Bernstein; "Oscars and Ulcers" - The Production History of High Noon" - a visual essay with rarely seen archival elements, narrated by Aaron Yelchin; "Uncriticized Kane" - an original essay by Sight & Sound editor Nick James; Theatrical Trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Gary Cooper	Will Kane
Grace Kelly	Amy
Thomas Mitchell	Henderson
Lloyd Bridges	Pell
Ian MacDonald	Frank Miller
Katy Jurado	Helen Ramirez
Otto Kruger	Mettrick
Lon Chaney Jr.	Howe
Eve McVeagh	Mildred
Lee Van Cleef	Jack Colby
Harry Shannon	Cooper
Bob Wilke	James Pierce,James Pierce
Sheb Wooley	Ben Miller
Tom London	Sam
Ted Stanhope	Station Master
Larry Blake	Gillis,Saloonbesitzer Gillis
William 'Bill' Phillips	Barber
Jeanne Blackford	Mrs. Henderson
James Millican	Baker
Cliff Clark	Weaver
Ralph Reed	Johnny
William 'Billy' Newell	Drunk,Jimmy
Lucien Prival	Bartender
Guy Beach	Fred
Howland Chamberlin	Hotel Clerk
Morgan Farley	Minister
Virginia Christine	Mrs. Simpson
Paul Dubov	Scott
Jack Elam	Charlie
Harry Harvey	Coy
Tim Graham	Sawyer
Nolan Leary	Lewis
Tom Greenway	Ezra
Dick Elliott	Kibbee
John Doucette	Trumbull
Harry Morgan	Fuller
Ian McDonald	Frank Miller
Lee Aaker	Junge
Roy Bucko	Bargast
John Cason	Bargast
Howland Chamberlain	Hotelangestellter
Ben Corbett	Stadtbürger
Virginia Farmer	Mrs. Fletcher
Chuck Hayward	Stadtbürger
Merrill McCormick	Fletcher
Creighton Chaney	Martin Howe,Actor
Dimitri Tiomkin	Composer

Technical Credits

Carl Foreman

John Cunningham

Fred Zinnemann	Director
Carl Foreman	Screenwriter,Producer
Stanley Kramer	Producer
John Cunningham	Screenwriter,Screenwriter
Jean L. Speak	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Willis Cook	Special Effects
Elmo Williams	Producer

Editorial Reviews

Fred Zinnemann's High Noon was described by John Wayne as the most un-American movie he'd ever seen. It offered an in-your-face story about responsibility, private and public, and some truths about the archetypal American community that would have been unpleasant in any era, but were even more so during the Red Scare of the early 1950s: the spectacle of town marshal Wil Kane (played by a too-old Gary Cooper), abandoned by his friends and neighbors and having to face down outlaws alone, was a pretty raw statement about where some people (including liberal producer Stanley Kramer) feared we were heading in 1952. It was the soundtrack, completed by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington with a song sung by an off-screen Tex Ritter, that helped turn the movie into a huge box office hit. This was a double irony, and an indicator of just what a miraculous conjuring trick Kramer and Zinnemann and screenwriter Carl Foreman had pulled off: Ritter was a reactionary Republican, Cooper an avowed anti-communist, Foreman an avowed Communist sympathizer (who left Hollywood before the movie was released), the movie had two blacklistees in major roles (Lloyd Bridges and Howland Chamberlain), and Kramer was Hollywood's one respected liberal voice. They came up with a film that opened the way for a generation of serious westerns, including The Bravados, The Big Country, and The Searchers.