Will Kane In 1952, Gary Cooper won a Golden Globe Award and his second Academy Award for his portrayal of Will Kane. While "The Washington Post" refers to the character as "A Classic Role," "Entertainment Weekly" ranked the character fourteenth on its list of the top twenty "All-Time Coolest Heroes in Pop Culture" in April 2009. The magazine included him on its list because in ""High Noon", Gary Cooper's retiring lawman faces down a killer and his goons despite being deserted by the rest of the town." "Entertainment Weekly" went on to cite his most heroic move as when "Kane's last ally
Seven Days to Noon 1952 at the RKO Pantages Theatre. "Seven Days to Noon" became available on DVD in 2008. Seven Days to Noon Seven Days to Noon is a 1950 British drama/thriller film directed by John and Roy Boulting. Based on the book, "Un Nazi en Manhattan", written by Fernando Josseau, Paul Dehn and James Bernard won the Academy Award for Best Story for this film. In the early 1950s, the British Prime Minister (Ronald Adam) is sent a letter by Professor Willingdon (Barry Jones), who works at Britain's atomic weapons development facility, the (fictitious) Wallingford Research Centre, from which he has surreptitiously