RE: High Noon, best western ever? Pres Clinton's favorite film

I dislike the picture, it just doesn't make sense. Cooper could'a just bushwhacked the guys waiting for Miller and then Miller too.

Plus western people of the time were ready, willing and able to take on outlaws, look what happened to the James-Younger Gang in Northfield Minnesota and the Dalton Gang in Coffeyville Kansas----they were shot to bits by the townspeople.

It's said that Howard Hawks disliked High Noon so much he made Rio Bravo (one of the best Westerns IMO) as a response.

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Topic - High Noon, best western ever? Pres Clinton's favorite film - Brian A 01:42:57 08/30/08 (13)

A bad posse often makes for a great western. - J.R. 20:01:08 08/31/08 (0)

Good movie, but not one of my favorites. - Harmonia 16:16:31 08/30/08 (5)

RE: Good movie, but not one of my favorites. - patrickU 13:09:31 08/31/08 (0)

Me too...No one filmed a Western like Ford - DWPC 18:50:38 08/30/08 (0)

It, and "Shane," portray courage in primal colors unmatched by other Westerns. - tinear 18:07:04 08/30/08 (2)

RE: It, and "Shane," portray courage in primal colors unmatched by other Westerns. - Tom Brennan 18:35:21 08/30/08 (1)

You forgot Jack Palance. Nationally known critics, I meant, too, not - tinear 21:06:52 08/30/08 (0)

RE: High Noon, best western ever? Pres Clinton's favorite film - Tom Brennan 12:22:41 08/30/08 (1)

I agree, Rio Bravo is a much better film. I'm a Cooper - Wendell Narrod 12:55:37 08/30/08 (0)

His wife is played by Grace Kelly, not Bergman... - C.B. 06:27:27 08/30/08 (2)

Age discrepancy? In "real life" she married a geezer, too, and he was no Gary Cooper! nth - tinear 07:50:57 08/30/08 (1)

Wasn't the Prince in his 30s when he married Grace? - Wendell Narrod 12:53:22 08/30/08 (0)

Have not seen it in years - Mike K 05:21:33 08/30/08 (0)

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RE: High Noon, best western ever? Pres Clinton's favorite film - Tom Brennan 12:22:41 08/30/08 (1)

I agree, Rio Bravo is a much better film. I'm a Cooper - Wendell Narrod 12:55:37 08/30/08 (0)

RE: High Noon, best western ever? Pres Clinton's favorite film

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