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
Ralph Meeker contract by MGM who put him in "Teresa" (1951), directed by Fred Zinnemann. Meeker played a support role, a sergeant, and the film was very popular. MGM then cast him in the leading role in "Shadow in the Sky" (1952), alongside Nancy Davis, later Nancy Reagan. The studio then tried him in "Glory Alley" (1952), billed above Leslie Caron and directed by Raoul Walsh. Both films flopped. Paramount borrowed him to play Betty Hutton's leading man in "Somebody Loves Me" (1952), a musical. It was a minor hit. Meeker's next two MGM films were very popular. He had a supporting