The train will whistle three times

the train will whistle three times ( High Noon ) is a American Western of Fred Zinnemann left in 1952.

Synopsis

Whereas it has just married and will have to return its star of Shérif the same evening, Will Kane learns the imminent return downtown from Frank Miller, a man whom it had formerly stopped and which, condemned to hanging, had sworn to be avenged. Miller must arrive by the train of midday or three of its accomplices await it. In spite of supplications of his wife, Kane decides to remain and tries to recruit men. But, by cowardice, interest, or friendship for the gangster, all are concealed. It is thus alone which it will have to deliver the combat.

Data sheet

  • Title: the train will whistle three times

  • original Titer: High Noon
  • Realization: Fred Zinnemann
  • Scenario: Carl Foreman, according to the work of John W. Cunningham
  • Production: Stanley Kramer
  • Music: Dimitri Tiomkin
  • Photography: Floyd Crosby
  • Assembly: Elmo Williams, Harry Gerstad
  • Decorations: Rudolph Sternad
  • Kind: Western
  • Country of origin: the United States
  • Black and white
  • Lasted: 85 minutes (1h25)
  • Coming out date: 1952

Main actors:

Around film

  • the train will whistle three times is held roughly in real-time, as illustrate it the recurring plans showing the dial of the clock of the office of the sheriff. The action of film begins indeed with 10:40 to finish shortly after midday, and its duration is 85 minutes.

  • For its realizer Fred Zinnemann, High Noon is composed of three recurring visual elements: first of all, the fixed plan on the railway, which means the awaited threat. Then, the desperate course of the Sheriff who seeks of the assistance in all the city. Lastly, clocks, increasingly large with the image and more and more often shown as the threat approaches.

  • the film is an allegory of the Maccarthisme, the attitude of the inhabitants of the city being supposed being the reflection of that of the professionals of the cinema who denounced their colleagues. Carl Foreman was placed besides on the black list shortly after its exit.

  • the train will whistle three times constitutes the first appearance with the cinema of Lee Van Cleef, but its role is dumb.

  • the original title of film exploits the double direction of the expression high noon . With the clean direction, it means full midday , but with the illustrated direction it indicates the hour of truth . After film, to Be high noon became an expression, which means “being completely alone with big problems”.

  • the song of film was interprêtée in France by John William under the title If you also you give up me .

  • For the historian of the cinema Leonard Maltin, High Noon dissociates westerns of the time completely: the hero admits to be afraid, the film comprises only very few scenes of action (at the end) and it is turned in black and white, which was extremely rare for the Westerns in 1952. Other elements distinguish this film from the other westerns: a stripped band its, a very sober image, a milky sky. The character of Helen Ramírez (Katy Jurado) was not banal for the time, since it is about a Mexican businesswoman.

Distinctions

Oscars 1952:

The film had also been named in the categories Meilleure put in scene , Meilleur film and Meilleur scenario .

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