High Noon (Collector's Edition)
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Movie Reviews of High Noon (Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: a great study in honor and duty
Summary: 5 Stars
I dont think any of us has been as isolated as gary cooper was in that town, when it came to finding support and maybe a true friend when you needed one. I think why you watch this over and over again on repeated viewings, is the great character studies...I mean would we help and stand up for right when it came down to it?...everybody gave a great performance in that movie!...by the way,I watched the first half of the lionsgate new edition last night..and I must say, they did this movie proud!...great picture and sound... an improvement over past editions...notice the great facial closeups..you can see every bead of tension mounting stress and sweat ( o.k. im sure it was hot as well...)....contrast was corrected from past editions , great job! Movie Review: 2 Disc Ultimate Edition
Summary: 5 Stars
I can't believe someone gave this film a 1 star simply because he wasn't pleased with Amazon's write up of the film.
Yes, it is remastered, and yes its filled with an entire disc of special features.
And yes, the actual film itself is an absolute classic.
Movie Review: HIGH NOON
Summary: 5 Stars
Putting aside the plot of the movie and director & producer..A little about the co-stars. On the last dvd release Leonard Maltin said nothing whatsoever on the rise of a young LEE VAN CLEEF.Shame on him.Instead he talks about one of the other outlaws who went on to become a charater villan in westerns by the name of ROBERT J.WILKE...who by the way is a very,very good actor.However...it was LEE VAN CLEEF who really shot to the top in the 1960's with "For A Few Dollars More".."The Big Gundown"..."Day Of Anger"..and his best..."THE GOOD,THE BAD And UGLY.And the very first actor that comes on the screen is who else..LEE VAN CLEEF!And the rider coming to meet him is SHEB WOOLEY...Mr.Maltin also forgot his acting for the future...such as a regular on "RAWHIDE"And song writer and singer...famous for his"THE PURPLE PEOPLE EATER.Mr.Maltin..shame twice on you.And forget having the remake with Lee Majors on the same dvd.That was a nightmare.You just can't remake a classic.They tryed twice
for.."STAGECOACH".Terrible.Let's keep it a classic all around.Anyhow...High Noon is a classic.Also United Artist Studios made the movie.Sounds like Paramount is buying up a lot of movies they never made.Such as"ISLAND IN THE SKY"John Wayne..was great.Made by WARNER BROS.
Oh well...as long as Paramount does right by it. Thankyou-Jack
Movie Review: This dvd will be worth the upgrade
Summary: 5 Stars
I can't believe people are giving this new dvd release bad ratings before it's release. I have heard from several sources that this release will have the restored by Paramount from the original negative film version that has never been released in the states. I have not seen this version but have read rave reviews on it's extremely clean and sharp look with perfect brightness and contrast. This print was not allowed to be loaned out for the previous two releases and an inferior print was used. In addition, a friend of mine John Mulholland has done a 50 minute documentory on this movie and he is an expert on both Gary Cooper and High Noon, so it is worth an upgrade just for that. Below is an excerpt from John on High Noon:
"HIGH NOON was hailed upon its release in 1952 as an instant classic. It won several Academy Awards, including one for its legendary star, Gary Cooper. It was named the year's best picture by the New York Film Critics Society. And yet, even though it's high on the American Film Institute's 100 Best Films of the Century, HIGH NOON's respect has been hard won, indeed. Perhaps no other classic film has had such a rocky road as this "simple little western."
Decried by influential auteurist critics and academics, HIGH NOON has been attacked for being untrue to the western genre - read anti-populist; for being "middle-brow" (whatever that might mean); for being social drama hiding behind the western genre - and muddled social drama, at that; for being the most un-American film ever made (courtesy of John Wayne), etc.
However, 56 years after its release, HIGH NOON still powerfully resonates with audiences around the world. When Solidarity needed a universal image to promote democracy and the right to vote in Poland in 1987, they chose Gary Cooper in HIGH NOON, a ballot in his hand rather than a gun. Conservatives and liberals both manage to cite HIGH NOON on the floor of Congress as a metaphor for their competing political ideals. Political cartoonists and headline writers inevitably use HIGH NOON as reference for countless crises. President Eisenhower cited High Noon as his favorite film, as have President Clinton and former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizuma.
On one hand, HIGH NOON has been attacked for being a conservative, damaging portrait of arrogant male paternalism. On the other hand, HIGH NOON is praised for challenging entrenched notions of gender, for exploring masculine anxiety, masculinity as a construct. Feminist critics and academics are offering intriguing and complex new readings to HIGH NOON.
Example: Amy Fowler (Grace Kelly) is having her new husband, Marshall Will Kane (Cooper), quit his career, leave his town, leave his friends, marry outside his church, and open a store of her choosing (wearing, perhaps, an apron?). Does Will Kane take on the villains at noon as a final gasp of masculine protest, as a declaration of independence from his wife's control?
Ernest Hemingway compared a story's meaning to an iceberg - like the iceberg, 7/8th of which lies hidden beneath the surface, 7/8th of a story's meaning lies beneath the surface.
Carl Foreman's bare-to-the-bones script and Fred Zinnemann's equally spare direction are a perfect film correlative to Hemingway's iceberg theory. This taut, seemingly straightforward little suspense western is complex, multi-layered, and perhaps even more relevant today than when it opened 56 years ago.
John Mulholland, writer/director
INSIDE HIGH NOON"
Movie Review: More information, please!
Summary: 1 Stars
Is this DVD restored in any way?
This is pretty basic information missing from the Amazon review.
Note on the rating: The website does not allow posting without a rating. Obviously no one here has any basis for rating the DVD as a product. The movie itself remains as good as it ever was though.
I have given the DVD product a one star rating as I can not endorse a product sight unseen.