High Noon Page #4

Synopsis: On the day he gets married and hangs up his badge, lawman Will Kane is told that a man he sent to prison years before, Frank Miller, is returning on the noon train to exact his revenge. Having initially decided to leave with his new spouse, Will decides he must go back and face Miller. However, when he seeks the help of the townspeople he has protected for so long, they turn their backs on him. It seems Kane may have to face Miller alone, as well as the rest of Miller's gang, who are waiting for him at the station...
Director(s): Fred Zinnemann
Production: United Artists
  Won 4 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.0
Metacritic:
89
Rotten Tomatoes:
96%
PG
Year:
1952
85 min
4,568 Views


- Why not?

- When are you going to grow up?

- I'm getting tired of that kind of talk.

- Then grow up.

Cut it out!

- All right

- Why should he have gone for it?

He needs me plenty

when Frank Miller gets here.

- That's possible.

- He should've had me made marshal.

- He's just sore. Sore about you and me.

- Is he?

Sure.

- You told him?

- Sure.

You're a fool.

Why? Didn't you want him to know?

Hey... Who did the walking out anyway,

you or him?

Get out, Harvey.

- I might just do that.

- Then do it!

- You don't mean that.

- Try me.

You're gonna talk different

when Frank gets here.

You might want somebody around,

when you try to explain about Kane.

- I can take care of myself.

- Sure.

I've heard that you might not be so pretty

when he gets through with you.

- I won't be back.

- Good.

-

Come in.

- I just saw Harvey. Is everything allright?

- I think I have to talk with Mr Weaver.

- You're getting out?

- Yes.

You want me to give Kane a hand?

- No.

- All right

May I wait here for the noon train?

I said, may I wait in the lobby until noon?

- Sure, lady.

- Thank you.

- You're Mrs Kane, ain't you?

- Yes.

You're leaving on the noon train,

but your husband ain't.

- No, why?

- No reason, but it's mighty interesting.

Now me, I wouldn't leave this town at noon

for all the tea in China.

No, sir.

It's going to be quite a sight to see.

# My eyes have seen the glory

of the coming of the Lord

#He's trampling out the vintage

where the grapes of wrath are stored

# He has loosed the fruitful lightening

of His terrible swift sword

# His truth is marching home

# Glory, glory, halleluja

Glory, glory, halleluja

# Glory, glory

#Halleluja

His truth is marching home

# He has sonded forth the trumpet

that shall never call retreat

# He is shifting out the hearts of men

before His judgement seat

- Will, I just heard...

- Hello.

You can count on me,

you know that, don't you?

- I was figuring I could.

- You cleaned this town up.

You made it fit

for women and kids to live in.

Miller or nobody else'll never

drag it down again.

- I hoped people'd feel that way.

- What other way is there?

- How many men you got Lined up?

- None yet.

Well, you better get going, man.

I'll be back in 10 minutes.

- Where is he?

- He's coming up the back way. A careful man.

-

Come in, Mr Weaver. Hello.

Sit down, please.

Is there anything wrong, Mrs Ramirez?

Why did you send for me?

I'm leaving town.

I want to sell the store.

- You want to buy me out?

- How much did you want?

Two thousand. I think that's fair.

It's fair allright, but

I couldn't raise that much now.

- How much can you raise?

- Oh... 1000 dollars.

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Carl Foreman

Carl Foreman, CBE (July 23, 1914 – June 26, 1984) was an American screenwriter and film producer who wrote the award-winning films The Bridge on the River Kwai and High Noon among others. He was one of the screenwriters that were blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1950s because of their suspected Communist sympathy or membership in the Communist Party. more…

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