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
The Passion of Darkly Noon The Passion of Darkly Noon The Passion of Darkly Noon is a 1995 psychological drama-suspense film written and directed by Philip Ridley and starring Brendan Fraser in the title role, and co-starring Ashley Judd and Viggo Mortensen. The protagonist's name and film title come both from a passage in the "Bible", 1 Corinthians 13: ""Now we see through a glass, darkly..."". For the film Ridley was awarded the Best Director Prize at the Porto Film festival. Darkly Noon (Brendan Fraser) is a young man who has spent his entire life as a member of an ultraconservative Christian cult. He received