Review – High Noon

Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when men were men in the face of all logic, odds, love and anything and everything else to the contrary. This classic western tells the tale of Marshal Kane, a lawman who forsakes his Quaker wife to defend an ungrateful town against outlaws who have sworn to kill him. The bulk of the movie plays in more-or-less “real time” as the marshal spends the hour before “high noon” fruitlessly trying to get the townfolk to lend a hand. Thus the gunfight at the end is almost anti-climactic, going against the usual grain for westerns that tend to emphasize violence over plot. I think I might have liked this film a little better if Gary “Mr. HUAC” Cooper hadn’t played the stick-to-your-morals-no-matter-what protagonist. See if desperate