High Noon - Final Showdown

Final scene from the 1952 Western "High Noon" featuring Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly and Lee Van Cleef.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• western
• movies
• cowboy
• gary
• cooper
• lee
• van
• cleef
• grace
• kelly
• shootout
• guns
• gunslingers
• showdown
• shooting
• death
• high
• noon
• 1952

[asterisk911]

John Wayne thought this was the most anti-American film ever. Yeah, there's one hero, but the typical American is a selfish coward. And when Gary Cooper's character throws his badge on the ground, he's spitting on the typical cowardly American, and deservedly so.

Well, John Wayne is entitled to his opinion. I'd rather concentrate on the one great American than the millions of losers, but that's where John Wayne and I disagree.

[MAnnaconduit1]

yeah i really love this film it really shows you how strong a man can be, becasue he could have left, or fled before miller arrived, and leave the wonsfolk who abandoned him to millers mercy but he stayed did his job then left. I wasn't really surprised by the townspeoples cowardice, some people are just cowards who hide behind the strong, yet lift no finger to help becasue they could be hurt, that is just how some people are, not Gary Cooper though.

[SatanicaBlackMetal]

best movie of all time ... not because of the Americans, but for humanity ....

[brabazon10]

the iconic western; still as good today as it was when first released in the 1950s. Saw it at the Filwood Broadway cinema, Bristol in 1956

[mrblowhard2u]

I saw this on the big screen when I was a kid. Loved it then, as now. One thing though, When the towns people come out and Cooper looks at them in disgust and then tosses his badge into the dirt, everyone in the audience, including me, let out a huge 'gasp' of disbelief because we all expected a happy ending. (par for the course at the time). I'll never forget that. (Also, there's a second badge in the dirt just behind Coopers left heel.)

[thmsjhnsn]

If there is a better movie than this I haven't seen it.

[UniversalHeat]

Great stuff. Gary Cooper's look of contempt as he looks at the townspeople who abandoned him is iconic

[SirDcitykity]

When Gary Cooper steps on his badge, he is stepping on every tea-bag.

[GojuBob]

If this film were in colour, it would be perfect: the message - that most people are moral cowards who will always find an excuse not to stand up and be counted - will never not be relevant.

[KYIRISH1]

Funny, I remember the McCarthy era and the Hollywood blacklist well but at the time I had no interest in it or the repercussions. I was at the age where what went on in Hollywood of the Senate hearing chambers was their business and I could care less. Only when I got a little older did I realize what a horrible time that was for some entertainers.

[CoolerKing37]

@KYIRISH1 Which is interesting, because both High Noon and On the Waterfront were allegories for the Hollywood blacklist yet endorsed opposite sides of the political argument when it came to naming names.

[danobsboyfriend]

@september7891 SUCK MY ANUS BITCH!