Will Kane Cooper (see below), "Cooper was not producer Stanley Kramer's first choice to play Marshal Will Kane." Nevertheless, Will Kane is "one of Cooper's most famous roles." Lee Majors explained that he accepted the role in the sequel, because "I've always admired Gary Cooper. And I wanted to do a Western again." Ron Hardy, who directed the recent remake, argued that Tom Skerrit was an ideal actor to take over the role in the remake. Hardy explained that like "Cooper, he is Mr. Everyday. People know who Tom Skerritt is. They don't treat him like a superstar. They feel he's approachable."
High Noon (2013 short film) schoolyard. The film was screened in half of the commercial venues in Venezuela during January and February 2015 as part of the Venezuela en corto initiative to promote award winning Venezuelan short films to general audiences. The plot is inspired in the director's recollections from a similar situation he lived in his childhood. He also treated the story as an homage to the Western as a film genre High Noon (2013 short film) High Noon (Original Spanish title: "La Hora Señalada") is a 2013 Venezuelan drama short film about bullying, directed by Ivan Mazza. In a school playground, a small