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8 unusual facts about High Noon


A Town Has Turned to Dust

The rest of the story revolves around how the report is used, revelations of a past crime, and a 'show down' in the style of High Noon.

Carry On Cowboy

Eventually, Knutt runs the Kid out of town, but once Rumpo discovers that Knutt really is a sanitary engineer and not the Peace Marshal he once thought, the Kid swears revenge, returning to Stodge City for a showdown, in an explicit parody of High Noon.

Firecreek

The film is similar to High Noon in that it features an entire town refusing to help a peace officer against outlaws, showing no backbone.

High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane

Will Kane returns to the town of Hadleyville, a year after the events of High Noon, and finds that the town is now in the hands of a corrupt marshal and his two aides.

In 1966, Four Star Television aired a High Noon half-hour television pilot entitled "The Clock Strikes Noon Again", with Peter Fonda as the adult son of Will Kane.

High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane is the 1980 made-for television sequel to the classic 1952 Western film High Noon.

Seth Thomas Clock Company

A Seth Thomas Wallclock tells the hour in the movie High Noon.

Slaughter Trail

Like High Noon, Slaughter Trail has continuing ballads throughout the film that ask and answer questions as well as narrate the story.


Ivan Sergei

Among Sergei's recent roles are the Lifetime Nora Roberts' series movie High Noon where he portrayed Duncan (April 2009) and a guest role in episode 3 of Warehouse 13 with his Jack Hunter co-star Joanne Kelly.


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Pest of the West

Aspects of the musical cues used in the high noon duel between SpongeBuck and Dead Eye Plankton was from Sergio Leone's 1968 Spaghetti Western film Once Upon a Time in the West, complete with Ennio Morricone's harmonica riff used for the Charles Bronson character.

Pioneer City

The park was opened on Memorial Day weekend 1966 by photography studio magnate Myron M. "Mike" Weiss, Sr. as a built-to-scale Dodge City, Kansas, complete with a saloon, general store, Pony Express office, opera house and casino, undertaker, and barber shop, highlighted by cowboy actors who staged gunfights at high noon.

Uma Outra Estação

Only three tracks of the album had not their melody composed by Legião Urbana: "Schubert Ländler" (a cover of a Franz Schubert piece), "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)" (an instrumental cover of Ned Washington's and Dimitri Tiomkin's "The Ballad of High Noon") and "Travessia do Eixão".

Will Donato

Donato's work can also be heard on the number one Steve Oliver hit from 2006, High Noon as well as on the soundtracks of Thelma and Louise, The Untouchables and The Wedding Planner.