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.
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Sight and Sound, 03/01/2001, p.64, "...A classic Western..." USA Today, 07/19/1998, p.5E, "...Filmdom's definitive dusty-street shootout..." Total Film, 04/01/2001, p.110, "...The almost silent final 15 minutes have more excitement than most of today's volume-cranked blockbusters can even dream of..." Premiere, 12/01/2003, p.9, "[A] new kind of American fable: the socially conscious western..." Entertainment Weekly, 01/11/2002, p.29, "...Gary Cooper forged a new kind of hero as a lawman left swinging in the wind. Also innovative was its use of real time..."
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HIGH NOON was an original selection to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1989.
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This version includes a photo essay of stills and storyboards and the original theatrical trailer. Includes "The Making of High Noon" featurette, a behind-the-scenes documentary narrated by Leonard Maltin, a hardbound book of "The Complete Films of Gary Cooper," a limited edition collector's reproduction of four original lobby cards and poster, and an individually-numbered gift box. DVD Features:
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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.
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