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High Noon

Saturday, March 12, 2022, 7:30 p.m., Dryden Theatre
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High Noon (1952)

(Fred Zinneman, US 1952, 85 min., 35mm)

One of the finest westerns ever produced, Zinneman’s taut film plays out in real time. Will Kane (Gary Cooper) has just been married and is on the verge of resigning his position as marshal when he is told that Frank Miller, whom he sent to prison five years earlier, has received a pardon and is arriving on the noon train. Kane considers fleeing, but realizes Miller will hunt him down, and he returns to face his responsibility. Kane appeals to the townspeople, but is turned away by everyone, leaving him alone to face the prisoner and his three outlaws.

 

Event Details

Dryden Theatre
$7 members
$10 nonmembers
$5 students with ID

$5 17 and under

Advance tickets encouraged.

Patrons must show proof of COVID vaccination (regardless of age), photo ID and wear masks. 

Tickets no longer for sale

About This Series

Conscientious Director: Stanley Kramer

Producer/director Stanley Kramer made his name as a director of “message films,” works that examined and challenged notions of society and the problems it faced. From the beginning of his career, Kramer worked outside of the studio system, forming his own production company. This allowed him to work cheaply by renting space instead of owning it, and without studio control. As a producer, he tackled prejudice (Cyrano de Bergerac), social responsibility (High Noon), disaffected youth (The Wild One), and authoritarianism (The Caine Mutiny). Moving into the director’s chair allowed him to have a more direct hand on the narrative as he examined racism (The Defiant Ones and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner), evolution vs. creationism (Inherit the Wind), and the threat of nuclear war (On the Beach). 

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