High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic (Hardcover)

from nancyadair

You know the film. Sheriff Kane has married a Quaker beauty and is hanging up his gun and turning in his badge to run a shop. Then Kane learns that a gang is out to get even--Kane's life to pay for his arrest of their leader, now out of jail. Get out of town, everyone advises. This two-bit town w...

from NewsieQ

Just as he did with the movie "The Searchers," Glenn Frankel has written a detailed history of the making of the movie High Noon, the people who made it - and the world in which all those people lived. It was an era where Hollywood was under a microscope. The House Committee on Un-American Activi...

from BrokenTeepee

I don't tend to read a lot of non-fiction so the subject matter really needs to appeal to me and in the case of High Noon - it did. It's got Hollywood, politicians behaving badly and a movie I remember watching with my father when I was a child. One of the first things I did after finishing the b...

from dickmanikowski

Gripping view of the classic western movie HIGH NOON viewed as a reflection of the witch hunt that resulted in the blacklist that made numerous actors and film industry veterans unemployable for many years.

from nancyadair

You know the film. Sheriff Kane has married a Quaker beauty and is hanging up his gun and turning in his badge to run a shop. Then Kane learns that a gang is out to get even--Kane's life to pay for his arrest of their leader, now out of jail. Get out of town, everyone advises. This two-bit town w...