Gary Cooper as a retiring small-town marshal who is completely abandoned by the townpeople he has defended for so long and left alone at noon to face a vengeful killer and his gang of outlaws.


Film programs

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Illustrierte Film Bühne nr. 1786

Books on High Noon

Michael F. Blake
Code of Honor, The Making of Three Great American Westerns
2003

Philip Drummond
High Noon
London, 1997

Books with substantial mentioning of High Noon

Kirsten Day
Cowboy classics, The roots of the American western in the epic tradition
Edinburgh, 2016

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Jürgen Müller (ed.)
Movies of the 50s
Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, 2005

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Peter W. Engelmeier (ed.)
Icons of film, The 20th century
Munich; New York, 2000

Neil Sinyard
Classic Movies
London, 1993

Peter van Gelder
Offscreen Onscreen, The inside stories of 60 great films
London, 1990

Peter Biskind
Seeing Is Believing, How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties
New York, 1983

Douglas Brode
The Films of the Fifties
Secaucus, NJ, 1976

Homer Dickens
The Films of Gary Cooper
Secaucus, NJ, 1970

Books with an entry on High Noon

Herb Fagen
The encyclopedia of westerns
New York, 2003

Alan G. Fetrow
Feature Films, 1950 - 1959, a United States Filmography
Jefferson, NC, 1999

Articles with an entry on High Noon

John Caps, Soundtracks 101, Essential movie music: a listener's guide, in: Filmcomment, nr. 6 (Nov/Dec), 2003 pp. 31-49