This is the first time I felt the need to review a film before I even see it.
Tom Skerritt is a super actor, but in High Noon he is no replacement for Gary Cooper. No actor today could have replaced Gary Cooper in a remark, albeit somebody tried, and failed miserably as far as im concerned.
In the original Gary Cooper was scared, frighted to death with what he knows he had to do, and Ned Washington's superbly crafted words in the song title convey this superbly, to Dimitri Tiomkin's insightful and beautifully haunting melody.
As a Western, this movie may indeed work, but that's it..
Gary Cooper's hound dog manliness made this movie for me....
I do plan to watch this up to-date version when I can get a copy.
I want to see how it differ's from the original in any other ways.?
The ending in the original when all the towns folk came out from behind their shops and houses as the frightened cowards they were, angered me and put a lump in my throat, then Gary Cooper through his tin star in the dust and walked away with his wife, made me weep inside. Although English in England, I feel America is very much like this today, people just dont care about anybody else.
As a Western, this movie may indeed work, but that's it..
Gary Cooper's hound dog manliness made this movie for me....
I do plan to watch this up to-date version when I can get a copy.
I want to see how it differ's from the original in any other ways.?
The ending in the original when all the towns folk came out from behind their shops and houses as the frightened cowards they were, angered me and put a lump in my throat, then Gary Cooper through his tin star in the dust and walked away with his wife, made me weep inside. Although English in England, I feel America is very much like this today, people just dont care about anybody else.