High Noon He frequently laments, "Whatever happened to Gary Cooper?" and refers to Will Kane as the "strong, silent type". The iconic ending to the film is shown on a television during an extended dream sequence in the fifth-season episode "The Test Dream". "High Noon" inspired the 2008 hip-hop song of the same name by rap artist Kinetics, in which "High Noon" is mentioned along with several other classic Western films, drawing comparisons between rap battles and Western-film street showdowns. "High Noon" is also briefly mentioned in the J. D. Robb novel, "Conspiracy In Death". Main character Lt. Eve Dallas has been
High Noon agent ... and find out why I didn't get "High Noon" instead of Cooper ..." After Wayne turned down the Will Kane role, Kramer offered it to Gregory Peck, who declined because he felt it was too similar to his role in "The Gunfighter", the year before. He later said he considered it the biggest mistake of his career. Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and Charlton Heston also declined the role. Kramer saw Grace Kelly in an off-Broadway play and cast her as Kane's bride, despite Cooper and Kelly's substantial age disparity (50 and 21, respectively). Rumors of an affair between