High Noon
Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Lloyd Bridges
Director: Fred Zinnmann
Ultimate Collector's Edition, 2 CD Set

Special Order

From our Purveyor of Films:
Gary Cooper and Lloyd Bridges were inducted on our town's Walk of Western Stars.

High Noon was nominated for seven Oscars and captured four in 1952. Best Actor-Gary Cooper. Best Film Editing, Best Original Score-Dimitri Tiomkin, Best Original Song-Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington.
Other nominations included Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.

From the DVD Case:
Gary Cooper won the Oscar for the Best Actor in this classic tale of a lawman who stands alone to defend a town of cowardly citizens against a gang of revenge-seeking criminals. In the greatest showdown in the history of cinema, Cooper stands to lose not only the town but his new wife, Grace Kelly. The film also stars one of Hollywood's most beloved and prolific actores, Lloyd Bridges, and marks the first starring roles for a beautiful young actress and internationally adored screen legend - Grace Kelly. High Noon garnered a total of four Academy Awards including Best Editing, Score and Original Song.

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.

Synopsis:
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.

Black & White, Run Time: 1 hour and 25 minutes

Additional Features:
Audio Commentary: Maria Cooper-Janis, Jonathan Foreman, Tim Zinneman, John Ritter
 Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer
 Documentary:
     1. THE MAKING OF HIGH NOON - Leonard Maltin - Host
     2. BEHIND HIGH NOON