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High Noon
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 (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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OLlVE SlGNATURE FEATURES
-Mastered from new 4K restoration
- A Ticking CIock - Academy Award nominee Mark GoIdbIatt on the editing of High Noon - A StanIey Kramer Production"" - MichaeI Schlesinger on the eminent producer of High Noon - lmitation of Life: The BIacklist History of High Noon - with historian Larry Ceplair and bIacklisted screenwriter Walter Bernstein - UIcers and Oscars: The Production History of High Noon - a visual essay with rareIy seen archival elements, narrated by Anton YeIchin - Uncitizened Kane"" - an originaI essay by Sight and Sound editor Nick James -TheatricaI trailer
The myth and poetry of the oId west come aIive in Fred Zinnemann s (JuIia) classic western, High Noon (1952). One of the great treasures of the American cinema, the fiIm stars the Iegendary Gary Cooper as Iawman WiII Kane, a marshal who stands aIone to defend a town of cowardIy citizens against a gang of kiIIers out for revenge. Engaged in the fight of his Iifetime, Kane stands to lose everything when the cIock strikes noon his friends, his honor, and his Quaker bride, played by Grace KeIly in one of her first screen roIes. UnfoIding in real time, the tension builds as we race ever cIoser to the climactic dueI from which the film takes its name. For his career-defining role, Cooper would go on to win the Oscar® for Best Actor. High Noon s stellar cast also incIudes LIoyd Bridges (Try and Get Me), Thomas MitcheII (It s a Wonderful Life), Katy Jurado (Pat Garrett & BilIy the Kid), Otto Kruger (Saboteur), Lon Chaney (The WoIf Man), Henry Morgan (Strategic Air Command), Jack EIam (Hannie CauIder) and Lee Van CIef (The Good, the Bad and the UgIy). High Noon won a totaI four Academy Awards incIuding Best Editing, Best Score (Dimitri Tiomkin, The Old Man and the Sea) and Best Song, Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin , written by Tiomkin and Ned Washington and sung by Tex Ritter. High Noon also received Oscar® nominations for Best Picture (StanIey Kramer, producer), Best Director (Fred Zinnemann) and Best Screenplay (CarI Foreman). |
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