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HIGH NOON

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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20040428
Author:Atkinson, Michael

A classic movie metaphor returns for another showdown

HIGH NOON

Directed by Fred Zinnemann

Paramount

April 30 through May 16, Film Forum

Designed from the flowchart up to be a kind of monolithic American metaphor, Fred Zinnemann's High Noon (1952)-restored and rereleased for a two-week run-is as simple as a film can be with this astonishing amount of ideological freight. The bad guys are returning to town; the retiring sheriff (a haggard, cancer-destined Gary Cooper) must do his duty; the ass-covering towns-people bail and leave the lonesome cowboy to face the music alone-Zane Grey would've ...

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