High Noon Actress, Score, and Cinematography-Black and White). The award-winning score was written by Russian-born composer Dimitri Tiomkin. "High Noon" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" in 1989, the NFR's first year of existence. In Hadleyville, a small town in New Mexico Territory, Marshal Will Kane (Cooper), newly married to Amy Fowler (Grace Kelly), prepares to retire. The happy couple will soon depart for a new life to raise a family and run a store in another town. However, word arrives that Frank Miller (Ian MacDonald),
In the Mood for Love other hand, returned to work on "2046", in which he starred without Maggie Cheung, who made only a brief appearance in already shot footage from "In the Mood for Love". Leung also starred in Wong's 2013 film, "The Grandmaster". Cheung felt "In the Mood for Love" was the high point of her career, and she has worked much more infrequently since, starring in several films soon after but within four years, all but retired from acting, despite winning a Best Actress Award at Cannes for 2004's "Clean". The final months of production and post-production on "In the Mood for Love",