Thursday, November 24, 2011

High Noon (1952)

Will Kane decides to get married and abandon the sheriff profession. However, on his wedding day, a bandit whom he had arrested and was released comes back to kill him, with the help of two other men. They are taking the noon train at a nearby town. Kane's wife wants him to leave, but he wants to confront the bandits. To that effect, he seeks help from the other citizens, but no one stands by his side. Consequently, he faces the bandits alone, helped only by his wife, who at the last moment decides to help him (at first she threatened to leave without him).
(Summary written in 1988; film seen then)

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