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High Noon

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High Noon	comment	Fred Zinnemann's High Noon (1952) is one of the most famous Western films ever released, in spite of â€“ or possibly because of â€“ the fact that it averts and even subverts many of the genre's conventions; in some ways it's really a gentle deconstruction of the Western, with its depiction of a hero mired in moral complexities rather than the simple, black-and-white clash between "good guy" and "bad guy" typical of the genre.The movie's plot is rather simple: Will Kane (Gary Cooper) is the town marshal of Hadleyville, New Mexico, who's planning to retire and live happily with his new bride Amy (Grace Kelly) â€“ two sure signs of impending doom. On Will's last day, the whole town learns that Frank Miller (no, not that one), a criminal Will had sent to prison some years earlier, has been released and will be arriving on the noon train with his gang, looking for revenge. Will seeks support from the townsfolk, but none of them will stand with him, not even his deputy. Amy, a pacifist, urges him to leave, but he refuses, choosing to fight Miller alone.Lloyd Bridges (father of Jeff and Beau) plays Kane's callow deputy. Thomas Mitchell plays the cynical mayor of Hadleyville. Lon Chaney Jr. is the town's arthritic former marshal. Harry Morgan, who would later become a TV star on Dragnet and MAS*H, is a cowardly townsman. A young Lee Van Cleef (doing what he did best, i.e., playing villains in Westerns) appears as one of Miller's henchmen. And Ian MacDonald plays Frank Miller himself.The screenplay (adapted from "The Tin Star", a short story by John Cunningham first published in Collier's magazine in 1947) was written by Carl Foreman, while he was under investigation by the House Un-American Activities Committee (and subsequently blacklisted in Hollywood) during the early-'50s Red Scare. The film has been interpreted by many as a parable about U.S. society, and U.S. intellectuals in particular, abandoning those summoned to appear before the committee.High Noon was nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning for Best Actor (Cooper), Editing (Elmo Williams and Harry Gerstad), Original Score (Dimitri Tiomkin), and Original Song (Tiomkin and Ned Washington). It is also notable as the film most requested for viewing by the U.S. Presidents. Bill Clinton named it his favorite (allegedly having it screened in the White House a record 17 times), and Ronald Reagan and Dwight D. Eisenhower were also big fans.Additionally, High Noon "inspired" Silver Lode, Rio Bravo, and Outland; see Recycled In Space for more.
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High Noon / int_11e0d645	type	Arc Symbol
High Noon / int_11e0d645	comment	Arc Symbol: Clocks are also a recurring motif as it counts down to the final showdown.
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High Noon / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
High Noon / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: A truly impressive example of an exaggerated version: a whole town refuses to make a stand against a very small gang because of various stated reasons but in the end the reality is that they're self-interested idiots.
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High Noon / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
High Noon / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: Used inconsistently: a fistfight leaves Kane covered in blood, but people who're shot just fall over.
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High Noon / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
High Noon / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The movie was inspired by the then-ongoing Hollywood blacklisting by the HUAC. A man is turned on by his so-called friends and colleagues when a threat comes to town. They are either too cowardly to fight back, sympathetic to the villain, or more interested in debate than action.
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High Noon / int_170128e9	type	Right Behind Me
High Noon / int_170128e9	comment	Right Behind Me: The bartender at the saloon is confidently predicting that Frank Miller will kill Kane within five minutes of his arrival, when Kane shows up behind him. On hearing Kane is going to stay and fight Frank Miller, a store owner eagerly tells his carpenter to start making up several coffins, as no matter who wins there will be a demand. He's embarrassed when Kane comes round as the carpenter is banging away in the back, and discretely tries to get him to stop. Kane is unimpressed, and sarcastically says he'll leave them to get on with their coffin-making.
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High Noon / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
High Noon / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Will. At least, until the moment when he buries his head in his arms, close to tears.
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High Noon / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
High Noon / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: Colby, played by Lee Van Cleef, doesn't say a word the whole movie. The only time he speaks is in the opening scene, but his words are completely drowned out by the opening music.
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High Noon / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
High Noon / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: Amy shoots one of Miller's man, Pierce, in the back through a window.
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High Noon / int_1f862cf	type	Dare to Be Badass
High Noon / int_1f862cf	comment	Dare to Be Badass: Subverted in the church when Kane's speech amounts to nothing.
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High Noon / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
High Noon / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: Kane tries to raise a posse to fight off four gunmen but when nobody wants to join in, he ends up taking on the gunmen by himself, then abandons the town in disgust.
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High Noon / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
High Noon / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: A literal example. During the first act of the film, Will's deputy quits because Will doesn't agree to make him the next marshal, and makes a point of hanging his revolver and belt in the wall. During the climactic fight this is the revolver Amy uses to shoot Pierce in the back and kill him.
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High Noon / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
High Noon / int_234fa9ba	comment	Mayâ€“December Romance: Gary Cooper was 28 years older than Grace Kelly and more than 22 years older than Katy Jurado.
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High Noon / int_26c22470	type	Put Down Your Gun and Step Away
High Noon / int_26c22470	comment	Put Down Your Gun and Step Away: Miller, having Amy at gunpoint, orders Kane to deliver himself which he does. Cue Amy's Damsel out of Distress moment.
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High Noon / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
High Noon / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: The story plays out in real time and takes place between 10:35 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. There are clocks shown in almost every room, constantly keeping track.
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High Noon / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
High Noon / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Kane and Helen exchange dialogue in Spanish:
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High Noon / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
High Noon / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Frank Miller and his gang, from the perspective of Kane and the townsfolk.
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High Noon / int_2b49eaf	type	Damsel out of Distress
High Noon / int_2b49eaf	comment	Damsel out of Distress: Miller captures Amy, and holding her at gunpoint, orders Kane to come out in the open. When Kane does, Amy claws into Miller's face. Miller instinctively pushes her away to the ground, giving Kane the chance to gun him down.
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High Noon / int_2c437b06	type	Violently Protective Girlfriend
High Noon / int_2c437b06	comment	Violently Protective Girlfriend: Amy eventually decides to fight for her man and guns down one of Miller's men.
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High Noon / int_2d364c81	type	Tomboy and Girly Girl
High Noon / int_2d364c81	comment	Tomboy and Girly Girl: Helen Ramirez as the Tomboy and Amy Fowler-Kane and the Girly Girl
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High Noon / int_35bec269	type	Implausible Synchrony
High Noon / int_35bec269	comment	Implausible Synchrony: Justified. A train arrives in Hadleyville at noon on a routine basis, therefore allowing all the clocks in town to be synchronized by a single point.
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High Noon / int_3669898	type	Undertaker
High Noon / int_3669898	comment	On hearing Kane is going to stay and fight Frank Miller, a store owner eagerly tells his carpenter to start making up several coffins, as no matter who wins there will be a demand. He's embarrassed when Kane comes round as the carpenter is banging away in the back, and discretely tries to get him to stop. Kane is unimpressed, and sarcastically says he'll leave them to get on with their coffin-making.
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High Noon / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
High Noon / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: An extremely cynical film, just about the most cynical movie ever made in the studio era. One hero asks for help from the people of his town when a bunch of killers show up, but no one will help him. They won't help, because they're cowards, too cowardly to defend their own town against criminals. They're all perfectly willing to let Will Kane die. The film's message is spelled out when Martin Howe, the elderly retired sheriff, tells Kane that people "just don't care" about law and order.
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High Noon / int_379dcdf2	type	Cowboys and Indians
High Noon / int_379dcdf2	comment	Cowboys and Indians: Kane runs into kids who imitate the battle between him and Miller, with him shot to death.
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High Noon / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
High Noon / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: On the surface, Hadleyville is a small, peaceful and prosperous town in the New Mexico Territory that was cleaned up when Kane captured Frank Miller and had him sent to prison. However, when push comes to shove, virtually all the townspeople turn out to be too cowardly, apathetic or opportunistic to defend the town, if they're not outright welcoming Miller's return. This is something that Kane's old lover Helen has known all along on account of being a Mexican woman in a predominantly white town, with all the drawbacks involved. This is why she decides to move out of Hadleyville, because regardless whether Kane lives or dies, by the inaction of its people Hadleyville has shown that it is ultimately doomed to return to the bad old days once Kane, the only one willing to stand up for law and order, is no longer around.
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High Noon / int_3e458831	type	Water Wake-up
High Noon / int_3e458831	comment	Water Wake-up: Kane uses a bucket of water to revive Harvey after their stable fight.
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High Noon / int_401089da	type	Offstage Villainy
High Noon / int_401089da	comment	Offstage Villainy: Frank Miller for most of the film. Kane sent him to prison for murdernote Miller was initially sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and now he's free—"I don't know how" says Kane before the start of the film, but Miller gets out and decides to take revenge on Kane. Kane runs around town insisting that Miller is a menace to them all, but people refuse to stand with him. Some even sympathize with Miller and insist that Kane is trying to drag them into a personal feud. When Miller finally arrives, he sports some evil scars to prove his villainy, but he still doesn't do anything except go after Kane and take Amy hostage.
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High Noon / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
High Noon / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Will was able to defeat Miller and is reunited with Amy, but departs by throwing down his badge without a word, disillusioned by the townspeople's cowardice.
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High Noon / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
High Noon / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Kane's decision to stay. He tells Amy that if they flee, they will never be able to settle down with the Miller Gang after them. It's also pointed out that Kane should throw Miller's gang in the clink before he arrives to take charge of them. Kane refuses as they're not actually breaking the law. Kane doesn't try to shoot first. He comes out from behind Miller's gang and announces himself so he won't shoot anyone in the back. He waits for them to fire before firing his weapon.
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High Noon / int_45a387bc	type	Light Feminine and Dark Feminine
High Noon / int_45a387bc	comment	Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Kane's old girlfriend is a curvaceous, passionate dark-haired Spicy Latina. His new wife is an innocent, angelic blonde pacifist. They're further color-coded by Amy wearing a bride's white dress while Helen wears a dark dress.
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High Noon / int_496569e8	type	Race Against the Clock
High Noon / int_496569e8	comment	Race Against the Clock: Sheriff Will Kane has roughly one hour to raise a posse to confront notorious villain Frank Miller before Miller's train arrives at High Noon. He doesn't.
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High Noon / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
High Noon / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: Frank Miller sports some evil scars, instantly establishing him as the bad guy when he arrives, in spite of his good publicity.
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High Noon / int_505f6a99	type	Showdown at High Noon
High Noon / int_505f6a99	comment	Showdown at High Noon: Despite what one would think, actively subverts this, as the hero sneaks up behind the gang of villains, gun already drawn, and yells for them to drop their guns before shooting one in the neck and leading to a tense chase. Furthermore, noon only marks the arrival of Frank Miller and co., not the showdown itself.
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High Noon / int_53968093	type	Wet Blanket Wife
High Noon / int_53968093	comment	Wet Blanket Wife: For most of the film, Amy is adamant that if Will stays and fights a group who are out to kill him, she will leave him. She's trying to keep him alive, and if he's going to recklessly endanger his life, she wants to be on the train out of town when he gets himself killed rather than see it happen.
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High Noon / int_53b6ab6a	type	Jumped at the Call
High Noon / int_53b6ab6a	comment	One man turns up at the start who has Jumped at the Call, and Kane tells him to wait in his office while he recruits some more. When Kane returns to tell him it's just the two of them, he's not so eager and decides to leave.
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High Noon / int_548bd053	type	Guns Akimbo
High Noon / int_548bd053	comment	Guns Akimbo: Colby, a member of Miller's gang (Lee Van Cleef) rushes into the barn blazing wildly with two guns. Kane picks him off neatly with one gun.
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High Noon / int_557a31ce	type	Actual Pacifist
High Noon / int_557a31ce	comment	Actual Pacifist: Kane has just retired and married a pacifist Quaker â€” which is sort of a problem 'cause a gang of indignant baddies has just come back to town and they want revenge. This makes for extra drama when Amy, after protesting his heroics and leaving him because of his choice to stay and fight, comes back just in time and kills a man to save her man.
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High Noon / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
High Noon / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: Kane spends most of the movie asking the townspeople for help; he also manages to gun down three out of four of the gang (including Miller himself) in just a few minutes
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High Noon / int_56d5b88f	type	Divided We Fall
High Noon / int_56d5b88f	comment	Divided We Fall: Will's deputy refuses to help him unless Will agrees to him being the next marshal. And almost everybody else in town just plain refuses.
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High Noon / int_56e8b9a6	type	Rage Against the Legal System
High Noon / int_56e8b9a6	comment	Rage Against the Legal System: Miller's reason for coming to town is to kill Kane for arresting him.
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High Noon / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
High Noon / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: Miller attempts this on Kane in the climax. It doesn't work out too well for him.
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High Noon / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
High Noon / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Kane calmly gives this to the townspeople who refused to help him against Miller and his thugs in the end when he drops his badge in the dirt. The only one in the crowd who doesn't receive this is the 14-year-old boy who earlier wanted to help Kane, even knowing that nobody else would; Kane had to order him to go home for his own sake.
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High Noon / int_673c9dd8	type	Insignia Rip-Off Ritual
High Noon / int_673c9dd8	comment	Insignia Rip-Off Ritual: A poignant moment at the end, where Will Kane takes off his sheriff's badge and drops it in on the ground in front of the town that abandoned him.
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High Noon / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
High Noon / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: While the townsfolk are vilified for being cowardly and unable or unwilling to support Kane, there's a few who raise decent points. Very few of them have any form of training with weapons and nothing is stopping Will from leaving town to get reinforcements rather than just running away. Hell, Kane just waiting one day would allow him the benefit of the new Marshal's help. John Wayne made the film Rio Bravo because he objected to the idea that a man hired to protect a town should turn to it for protection. This is brought up during High Noon in the church scene where one townsfolk member asks why Kane let the situation degrade to just him and one disgruntled deputy. Another townsfolk member suggests that Will should arrest Frank's gang before he arrives. Will says that they haven't done anything yet but he could legally hold them for 24 hours today. Then if Frank tried to kill him, it would be pretty strong evidence that they were part of a conspiracy to commit murder. The preacher points out that telling his flock to go out and kill or get themselves killed is against his duties as a man of God.
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High Noon / int_6bd7b49a	type	Spicy Latina
High Noon / int_6bd7b49a	comment	Spicy Latina: Helen Ramirez (Katy Jurado), the half-Mexican saloonkeeper who's the former lover of both Frank Miller and Will Kane, and the current lover of Harvey Pell.
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High Noon / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
High Noon / int_6f059863	comment	Oddly Small Organization: Frank Miller only has three henchmen waiting for him at the station, which is a fairly small number for a gang boss all told. However, as the townspeople themselves are generally apathetic, cowardly or opportunistic, when they're not ready to outright roll the red carpet for him, it's easy to see how Miller could retake control of Hadleyville once the trifling affair of murdering Kane has been taken care of.
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High Noon / int_71268450	type	Adaptation Title Change
High Noon / int_71268450	comment	Adaptation Title Change: High Noon was based on the short story "The Tin Star".
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High Noon / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
High Noon / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: In the original short story, "The Tin Star", Kane's counterpart Doane is killed in the final shootout. He makes it out alive here.
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High Noon / int_79eb1e2e	type	Neutral Female
High Noon / int_79eb1e2e	comment	Neutral Female: Subverted. Amy vows not to support or help her husband fight the thugs, but ultimately she is the only person to help him fight. She shoots a bad guy and is even able to break free of Miller's hold so her husband can shoot him. Played straight by many of the female townspeople. Some seem disgusted at their husbands' refusal to help Kane, but do nothing themselves.
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High Noon / int_79fa704c	comment	Training the Peaceful Villagers: Subverted. Kane hears that a criminal gang is coming to his Wild West town bent on revenge. Despite the fact that he was already planning on leaving, he spends most of the movie attempting to rally the villagers to the defense of their town. Everyone else proves too cowardly to fight, however, and he is forced to take on the gang almost singlehandedly.
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High Noon / int_7e74d66f	type	Politically Correct History
High Noon / int_7e74d66f	comment	Politically Correct History: It's typical for a lot of Westerns to gloss over or stereotype Hispanic characters, but this film averts it. Helen faces prejudice over her ethnicity, and is only able to help run a store by being a silent partner. The other owner of the store refuses to be seen with her in public.
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High Noon / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
High Noon / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Kane keeps Charlie, Hadleyville's resident alcoholic, in a holding cell for most of the movie.
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High Noon / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
High Noon / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: When Kane goes to the church for help, many of the congregation are willing. However one man convinces them otherwise, saying a gunfight will lead to bad publicity and lack of investment. But the gunfight happens anyway, whereas a posse might have convinced Frank Miller to back down rather than take on superior numbers.
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High Noon / int_85b91cc1	type	Retired Gunfighter
High Noon / int_85b91cc1	comment	Retired Gunfighter: Will Kane, trying to hang up his guns to marry his Quaker bride.
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High Noon / int_879a3fda	type	Hero Looking for Group
High Noon / int_879a3fda	comment	Hero Looking for Group: Subverted. See Posse below.
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High Noon / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
High Noon / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Miller's thug Pierce is welcomed as a hero by the saloon rats of the town. Some people even assert that Miller himself isn't really a villain; he's just involved in a personal dispute with Kane.
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High Noon / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
High Noon / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: Colby, the harmonica-toting thug played by Lee Van Cleef, has no audible lines.
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High Noon / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
High Noon / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: The children dismissed from the church aren't the least bit upset about Miller's impending return, which they've just heard about, and are content to cheerfully play around. (It's possible they don't really know who he is, though.)
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High Noon / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
High Noon / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Amy and Helen.
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High Noon / int_955aba87	type	Mook Chivalry
High Noon / int_955aba87	comment	Mook Chivalry: Averted, at least in some aspects. The bandits announce when they'll arrive, but that is for intimidation. When they do arrive when scheduled, they immediately find concealment and, even when discovered, continue to find cover, preferably on high ground, and take a highly defensive strategy. They still attack mostly one at a time, but this is because they are so scattered around the town that only a few at most can shoot at Kane at a time.
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High Noon / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
High Noon / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Amy fires a decisive gunshot despite being a pacifist (and openly telling Kane to get out of town) through most of the film. While it may not be as adrenalin charged as other examples, it is a pretty major shift in terms of the character!
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High Noon / int_9e9203e1	type	Dramatically Missing the Point
High Noon / int_9e9203e1	comment	Dramatically Missing the Point: Amy eventually comes to the conclusion that Will is only sticking around because of Helen, his ex, and goes to her to ask that she "let him go". Helen has to flat out tell her that this isn't the case, since they haven't talked for a year (until he came to warn her about Frank).
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High Noon / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
High Noon / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: Helen has a seductive Arabian-style theme to offset her exoticness.
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High Noon / int_a280f130	type	Take This Job and Shove It
High Noon / int_a280f130	comment	Take This Job and Shove It: Even if totally wordless, when Sheriff Will Kane rips off his sheriff's badge and tosses it to the ground before Riding into the Sunset with his wife, sickened that almost everybody in town was a Dirty Coward who refused to stand up to Frank Miller and nearly got him killed, he definitely means this Trope.
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High Noon / int_a8593e70	type	Real Time
High Noon / int_a8593e70	comment	Real Time: One of the most famous examples in movie history, as the film tells about an eventful 1 hour and 40 minutes in the life of Will Kane.
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High Noon / int_a8a4b41e	type	Not So Stoic
High Noon / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: Will Kane is a calm, collected, responsible former marshal who needs deputies to help him fight Frank Miller, who's arriving into town on the noon train, but no one is willing to help him. Finally, when the marshal realizes he's utterly alone, he hides his face away, near tears, in the solitude of his office.
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High Noon / int_a9483a5c	type	Meek Townsman
High Noon / int_a9483a5c	comment	Meek Townsman: Most of the male characters, to the point where you wonder why the town marshal bothered protecting the town in the first place.
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High Noon / int_add9abb3	type	The Missus and the Ex
High Noon / int_add9abb3	comment	The Missus and the Ex: Amy and Helen. Although Helen Ramirez clearly still carries a torch for Kane, she helps persuade Amy to be the partner she knows he deserves:
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High Noon / int_aec3d8b2	type	Expository Theme Tune
High Noon / int_aec3d8b2	comment	Expository Theme Tune: "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin')", written by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington and performed by Tex Ritter, lays out the hero's motivation and objectives while appealing to his wife to stay with him in spite of what he's about to face. Despite the line "look at that big hand move along nearin' high noon," it's more expository than a Title Theme Tune. (Both Ritter and Frankie Lane had hit recordings of the song.)
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High Noon / int_aef5c283	type	Off-into-the-Distance Ending
High Noon / int_aef5c283	comment	Off-into-the-Distance Ending: The film ends with the carriage containing the hero and his wife rolling away into the distance. (It's not long after noon, so there's no sunset.)
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High Noon / int_b4b2a42a	type	Widowed at the Wedding
High Noon / int_b4b2a42a	comment	Widowed at the Wedding: The Miller gang is due to arrive at any moment to kill Sheriff Kane, on his wedding day.
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High Noon / int_b76fe275	type	Ungrateful Townsfolk
High Noon / int_b76fe275	comment	Ungrateful Townsfolk: Marshal Kane is trying to save the town from a gang of criminals and the rest of the ungrateful townspeople don't lift a finger to help him. In fact, some support the gang being allowed to run the town.note Namely, the manager of the hotel, who tells Amy straight-up that he made more money when the town was a Wretched Hive dominated by the Millers. The drinkers in the saloon also aren't all that upset about Miller showing up. At the end, after beating Miller and his gang, Kane throws down his badge and drives away without a word.
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High Noon / int_c250346f	type	Generic Doomsday Villain
High Noon / int_c250346f	comment	Generic Doomsday Villain: Frank Miller's personality and past aren't expanded on in any detail. He's a murderer who Kane put away and is now seeking revenge, and that's it. It doesn't help that he barely appears in the film. See also Offstage Villainy below.
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High Noon / int_c39710e1	type	Posse
High Noon / int_c39710e1	comment	Posse: Subverted; Kane tries to get one, but unsuccessfully. Some refuse to join him out of cowardice, others because they sympathize with Miller. The only people who would be willing to help him are a one-eyed old drunk and a 14-year-old boy; Kane sends them away, as they'd be more of a hindrance.
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High Noon / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
High Noon / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: While it doesnâ€™t hurt that color wasn't in vogue for serious/art films at the time, the black-and-white color schemes are suggestive of a good-vs.-evil conflict in a morally-complex story. The photography was intended to look 19th-century, and especially intended to resemble the solemn palettes from photography of the Civil War. When the idea of colorizing black-and-white films turned to High Noon, Word of God was, in essence, â€œNo thank you.â€�
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High Noon / int_d3510138	type	Right on the Tick
High Noon / int_d3510138	comment	Right on the Tick: The film makes heavy use of this trope, constantly reminding the viewers of how fast the noon hour is approaching.
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High Noon / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
High Noon / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Helen calls out Amy for abandoning Will in his darkest hour.
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High Noon / int_d5316706	type	Prematurely Marked Grave
High Noon / int_d5316706	comment	Prematurely Marked Grave: Marshal Kane is not amused to find the local carpenter building several coffins in anticipation of the impending gunfight.
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High Noon / int_d563a53c	type	Batman Grabs a Gun
High Noon / int_d563a53c	comment	Batman Grabs a Gun: Amy's decision to break her pacifist code to save Will.
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High Noon / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
High Noon / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Kane first hears that Miller is coming, the people around him urge to escape. He grabs his wife and a wagon and gets out of town. He stops when he realises that he's panicking; he doesn't even have his guns with him. On returning to the town he finds the judge calmly packing up his horse to leave town, being aware from prior experience that the townspeople will not help Kane. Helen RamÃrez sells her part in the store at a very disadvantaged deal and immediately leaves the town. She knows that it doesnâ€™t matter Kane wins or loses against Frank Miller, the town will not help him and either way they will lose the only man who defied the town they live in. One man turns up at the start who has Jumped at the Call, and Kane tells him to wait in his office while he recruits some more. When Kane returns to tell him it's just the two of them, he's not so eager and decides to leave.
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High Noon / int_da79f321	type	The Seven Western Plots
High Noon / int_da79f321	comment	The Seven Western Plots: A hybrid marshal/outlaw/revenge story, where the marshal has to face a band of outlaws who want revenge on him for arresting them previously.
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High Noon / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
High Noon / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: Frank Miller dresses in white in contrasting his goons wearing black.
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High Noon / int_eeaeec29	comment	Hair of the Dog: According to the deleted scenes, the first thing Charlie does after he's released, hungover, from jail, is to help himself to the abandoned drinks at the saloon.
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High Noon / int_fcd9b657	type	Gallows Humor
High Noon / int_fcd9b657	comment	Gallows Humor: The barber doubling as an undertaker, telling his assistant to build at least four coffins for the inevitable showdown.
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High Noon / int_ff7e9adf	comment	Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Played with. Amy, initially depicted as naive and innocent, insists that she is familiar with violence and ultimately becomes Kane's only supporter.
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