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High Noon
1952 -
Not Rated
Release Date: 06/10/2008
Features:
DVD Features:
2-Disc Set - Keep Case
Widescreen
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Subtitles - English, Spansih
Aditional Release Material:
Audio Commentary
Documentaries - 1. INSIDE HIGH NOON
2. TEX RITTER: A VISIT TO CARTHAGE TEXAS
3. BEHIND HIGH NOON
Featurettes - 1. The Making of HIGH NOON - Hosted by Leaonard Maltin
2. Full-length Tex Ritter Performance of Oscar-Winning Song
3. Radio Broadcast with Tex Ritter (Audio)
Time:
85
mins.
J&R Item # 1046060_15
UPC # 017153240856
Label: Lions Gate Home Entertainment
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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.
Cast:
"...Filmdom's definitive dusty-street shootout..."
-- Mike Clark
, (USA Today)
"...A classic Western..." -- Geoffrey Macnab , (Sight and Sound) "...The almost silent final 15 minutes have more excitement than most of today's volume-cranked blockbusters can even dream of..." -- Ceri Thomas , (Total Film) "...Gary Cooper forged a new kind of hero as a lawman left swinging in the wind. Also innovative was its use of real time..." -- Entertainment Weekly Staff , (Entertainment Weekly) "[A] new kind of American fable: the socially conscious western..." -- Premiere Staff , (Premiere) "Director Fred Zinnemann's iconic Western plays like a Johnny Cash song..." -- Grade: B -- Jeff Labrecque , (Entertainment Weekly)
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