Tag: High Noon

• What’s So Amazing About Grace Kelly

  I rewatched High Noon after reading Glenn Frankel’s excellent new book High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic. I first saw it in a high school film class and loved it. Because I hadn’t seen many westerns before that, I didn’t realize how unique it was among them, but I…

  Mar 2, 2017

  # acting, film, Grace Kelly, High Noon, movies, Rear Window

• Standing Tall: Comparing ‘High Noon’ and ‘On The Waterfront’

  Published in the North Central Chronicle on Jan. 25, 2008 “I have here in my hand…” said Senator Joseph McCarthy in February 1950, effectively hoodwinking the country into a hysterical anti-Communism era known as the Red Scare. McCarthy claimed the list identified 200 Communists within the American government, so he and the House Committee on…

  Feb 1, 2008

  # America, Communism, Elia Kazan, film, Gary Cooper, High Noon, history, HUAC, Joseph McCarthy, Marlon Brando, movies, NCC Chronicle, On the Waterfront, politics, Red Scare