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Inside High Noon Director's Cut [Playing Nov. 1 on various PBS stations; to watch the film, you can also log on to pbsvideo.org.] Matthew Rhys narrates John Mulholland's educational, enlightening, in-depth, candid, 55-minute documentary that dissects the well-written script of the 1952 critically-acclaimed, black-and-white, classic Western High Noon, the pervasive blacklisting during and after making the movie that occurred with conservative Gary Cooper defending screenwriter Carl Foreman, and the hypocrisy of John Wayne who labeled the film as the most un-American film ever made; analyzes the motives and unwillingness of the Hadleyville citizens to defend their town and why Cooper's character Marshal Will Kane finds it necessary to act despite his fear (even while expecting to die); and consists of a myriad of High Noon film snippets and insightful commentary by Gary Cooper's daughter Maria Cooper Janis, Media Studies Professor at Fordham University Meir Ribalow, former president Bill Clinton, screenwriter Carl Foreman's son Jonathan Foreman, American Studies & Literature professor at Princeton University, Lee Clark Mitchell, director Fred Zinnemann and his son Tim Zinnemann, Prince Albert of Monaco, and author and film historian Brian Garfield.   Redhead: Year: 2022 Rating:  NR View Inside High Noon Director's Cut on the Internet Movie Database