High Noon is a 1952 American Western film produced by Stanley Kramer from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, directed by Fred Zinnemann, and starring Gary Cooper.
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10 Facts About High Noon
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High Noon was selected by the Library of Congress as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" in 1989, the NFR's first year of existence.
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High Noon wore no makeup to emphasize his character's anguish and fear, which was probably intensified by pain from recent surgery to remove a bleeding ulcer.
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Movie's theme song, "High Noon", known by its opening lyric, "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling", became a major hit on the Country-Western charts for Tex Ritter, and later, a pop hit for Frankie Laine as well.
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High Noon has been cited as a favorite by several U S presidents.
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The story of High Noon takes place in the Old West but it is really a story about a man's conflict of conscience.
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High Noon has even been described as a "straight remake" of the 1929 film version of The Virginian in which Cooper starred.
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High Noon is considered an early example of the revisionist Western.
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High Noon is referenced several times on the HBO drama series The Sopranos.
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High Noon inspired the 2008 hip-hop song of the same name by rap artist Kinetics, in which High Noon is mentioned along with several other classic Western films, drawing comparisons between rap battles and Western-film street showdowns.
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