High Noon High Noon High Noon is a 1952 American Western film produced by Stanley Kramer from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, directed by Fred Zinnemann, and starring Gary Cooper. The plot, depicted in real time, centers around a town marshal who is torn between his sense of duty and love for his new bride and who must face a gang of killers alone. Though mired in controversy with political overtones at the time of its release, the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four (Actor, Editing, Music-Score, and Music-Song) as well as four Golden Globe Awards (Actor, Supporting
Edward Fox (actor) Zinnemann, who was looking for an actor who was not well-known and could be believable as the assassin in the film "The Day of the Jackal" (1973). Fox won the role, beating other contenders such as Roger Moore and Michael Caine. From then on he was much sought after, appearing in such films as "A Bridge Too Far" (1977) as Lieutenant General Horrocks, a role he has cited as a personal favourite, and for which he won the Best Supporting Actor award at the British Academy Film Awards. He also starred in "Force 10 from Navarone" (1978), with Robert Shaw