High Noon [Two-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition] (1952)
DVD9+DVD5 | ISO+MDS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 8000 kbps | 10.2Gb
Audio: #1 English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps, #2 English AC3 3.0 @ 384 Kbps | Subtitles: English, Spanish
01:25:00 | USA | Drama, Western
DVD9+DVD5 | ISO+MDS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 8000 kbps | 10.2Gb
Audio: #1 English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps, #2 English AC3 3.0 @ 384 Kbps | Subtitles: English, Spanish
01:25:00 | USA | Drama, Western
A marshall, personally compelled to face a returning deadly enemy, finds that his own town refuses to help him.
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Grace Kelly, Otto Kruger, Lon Chaney Jr., Harry Morgan, Ian MacDonald, Eve McVeagh, Morgan Farley, Harry Shannon, Lee Van Cleef, Robert J. Wilke, Sheb Wooley, Lee Aaker, Ernest Baldwin, Guy Beach, Jeanne Blackford, Larry J. Blake, John Breen, Roy Bucko, John L. Cason, Howland Chamberlain, Virginia Christine, Cliff Clark, Ben Corbett, Russell Custer, John Doucette, Tex Driscoll
Retiring Marshall Will Kane (Gary Cooper) insists on defending his town from a gang of hooligans who are due on the noon train – but he faces the task alone as the cowardly townspeople flee like rats from a sinking ship. Director Fred Zinnemann creates an incredibly tense Western (rightly considered one of the true genre classics) that unfurls in real time – as the clocks on the wall constantly remind us.
Extras:
Disc 1:
- Commentary by Maria Cooper-Janis, Jonathan Foreman, Tim Zinneman, John Ritter and David Crosby.
Disc 2:
- Featurette: Inside High Noon (49:56)
- The Making of High Noon (22:09)
- Featurette: Behind High Noon (9:47)
- Featurette: Tex Ritter: A Visit to Carthage Texas (5:57)
- Tex Ritter performing the Oscar winning theme song on The Jimmy Dean Show (2:54)
- Radio broadcast with Tex Ritter on the Ralph Emery Show (5:35)
IMDb
High Noon is one of the most loved films of all times thanks to the elements that came together to make it the classic that it is. The movie owes a lot to Fred Zinnemann for his tight account of this story by Carl Foreman. The film benefits from Dimitri Tiomkin's great score and the great cinematography by Floyd Crosby.
This is a film that packs a lot of symbolism because of the times when it was done. Those were the days of the communist hysteria where many people in the industry were accused, tried and lost jobs because when they faced the HUAC and Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Gary Cooper plays a man who is decent enough to return to the town where he just has gotten married and has finished his tour of duty. His conscience doesn't let him leave his post as he delays his plans and goes back to defend the town from the bandit who's been freed by Northern judges, and is coming back to seek revenge from Marshal Kane and the town.
Gary Cooper embodied the all Amercian hero. He was an actor who could do no wrong, as he proves in his take of Marshal Kane. We see him as the clock is ticking away toward noon time when the train will arrive in Hadleyville. We see him perspire as he goes around trying to get people help him deal with the problem, to no avail; he will have to do it himself. In the process, he clearly disappoints his new bride, who is horrified at the prospect of losing the man she clearly loves.
Grace Kelly was such an elegant figure that it's hard to imagine she would be in Hadleyville at all! Katy Jurado was also excellent as the jaded Helen Ramirez, the woman who owned a lot of businesses in town. Also effective, Thomas Mitchell, as the mayor of the town and Lloyd Bridges, as Harvey.
This is a film to treasure.
~ jotix100