Loved by both Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, the 1952 convention-defying film is like a political Rorschach test
Photograph: Courtesy Everett Collection/REX, Fred Zinnemann’s unusually circumspect and politically loaded western, are two US presidents: Ronald Reagan, who considered it his favorite film, and Bill Clinton, who reportedly hosted 17 screenings of it at the White House. It is not difficult to see how heads of state might see themselves in Gary Cooper’s Will Kane, a small-town marshal in the New Mexico territory who’s determined to do what’s right, even if it defies popular will.
The action unfolds in real time, so while there’s little action in High Noon, the race-against-the-clock conceit raises the stakes considerably. For Kane, it should be a blissful, carefree final day in Hadleyville. After a successful run as the town marshal, he’s passing along his tin star to his successor and setting out for a new life with the young, beautiful Amy , who he marries that morning in front of a Justice of the Peace.
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