“High Noon” quotes
(1952)
Title High Noon
Year 1952
Director Fred Zinnemann
Genre Drama, Western
Year 1952
Director Fred Zinnemann
Genre Drama, Western
Plot – Sheriff Willy Kane resigns from office on the day of his marriage with Amy, a Quaker girl, but he decides to keep his position once more to face a dangerous outlaw that is coming back to town. Citizens one by one deny their help and Willy has to face alone the criminal and his gang. After eliminating them all, he goes away forever with his wife, the only one who has helped him in the difficult task.
All actors – Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Grace Kelly, Otto Kruger, Lon Chaney Jr., Harry Morgan, Ian MacDonald, Eve McVeagh, Morgan Farley, Harry Shannon, Lee Van Cleef, Robert J. Wilke, Sheb Wooley, Lee Aaker, Guy Beach, Jeanne Blackford, Larry J. Blake, John Breen, Roy Bucko, John L. Cason, Howland Chamberlain, Virginia Christine, Cliff Clark, Ben Corbett, John Doucette, Tex Driscoll, Paul Dubov, Jack Elam, Dick Elliott, Virginia Farmer, Tim Graham, Tom Greenway, Harry Harvey, Chuck Hayward, Michael Jeffers, Chubby Johnson, Paul Kruger, Nolan Leary, Tom London, Merrill McCormick, James Millican, Jack Montgomery, William Newell, William H. O'Brien, William 'Bill' Phillips, Lucien Prival, Ralph Reed, Syd Saylor, Ted Stanhope
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“I knew you had guts but I never figured you for brains. It takes a pretty smart man to know when to back away.”
“It takes more than big, broad shoulders to make a man.”
“People gotta talk themselves into law and order before they do anything about it. Maybe because down deep they don't care. They just don't care.”
“- Helen: What kind of woman are you? How can you leave him like this? Does the sound of guns frighten you that much?
- Amy: I've heard guns. My father and my brother were killed by guns. They were on the right side but that didn't help them any when the shooting started. My brother was nineteen. I watched him die. That's when I became a Quaker....” (continue)(continue reading)
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