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    High Noon

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    When first released in the early 50's HIGH NOON was a dreadful flop until it was analyzed with a fine tooth comb. It was realized that the editing of the film really created a pretty dreary movie, hard to follow. Producer Stanley Kramer and associates immediately got to re-working all the footage to what we now have, one of the greatest westerns ever made. COOP won an Oscar as the Sheriff who is an outsider of sorts with whom everyone in the western town is afraid to side. He gives a tremendous performance as an aging sheriff in love with GRACE KELLY in one of her very first films. Along with the amazing performance of KATY JURADO and the bad guys headed by JACK PALANCE this Fred Zinnemann production written by Care Foreman is a masterpiece.

    I know a good deal about the witch hunts in Hollywood for Communist sympathizers and certain parts of this HIGH NOON fell into a suspicious category that led both director and writer to the backlash of McCarthy's real concern about communism which quickly turned into an obsession that made him no better than a crazy man. So many innocents suffered at his brutal hands. As I now write this, I realize how it affected the great Fred Zinneman as he would make almost no films during the 1950's, the tide turning when he was asked to direct the miraculous film called THE NUN'S STORY starring a luminous Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch and Dame Edith Evans. Similarly, Carl Foreman's career was on the skids till he wrote THE GUNS OF NAVERONE with Peck, Quinn and Irene Papas to the most raving reviews around 1960. The film went on to Oscar nominations of all kinds as did The Nun's Story the previous year!

    We luckily have many great westerns in today's world almost exclusively from a Hollywood that doesn't exist any longer. Each will have his or her personal favourites. Aside the favourites. I believe I can lump Stagecoach, High Noon, Shane, The Big Country, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Wild Bunch, and Clint Eastwood's 90's Unforgiven amongst the greatest westerns ever made with an honorable mention to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as a western with humour and some comic relief. I do wish we would get some amazing western come along in the not too distant future.

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    pietroantoni@  4.6.2015 age: 36-49 14,528 reviews

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