FredCDobbs

See this: "I still believe High Noon was the best picture of 1952, but the political climate of the nation and the right-wing campaigns after High Noon had enough effect to relegate it to an also-ran status. Popular as it was, it could not overcome the climate in which it was released. Carl Foreman, who wrote it, had by then taken off for England under a cloud of accusations as a result of his political beliefs. Between the time he turned in the script and the time the Academy voted, we all learned that he had been a member of the Communist Party, but anyone who has seen the picture knows that he put no Communist propaganda into the story. If he had tried to do so, I would have taken it out." By Scott McGee & Jeff Stafford" http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/24083/High-Noon/articles.html Hey! It's just a MOVIE! If anything, it might have been a slightly anti-American film, since no one in town would help the Sheriff, and even the Church men refused to help him. And his religious wife refused at first, but finally renounced her Quaker beliefs and decided to help him. But lone brave men fighting alone to save a town was a very common Western movie theme in the old days, including the Zorro and Lone Ranger films.

It's not "The Citadel", it's "The Crucible".

This is a great movie all the way around.... actors, screenwriter, director, music, story, etc.

Great classic acting:

I think it was actually about the secret infiltration of Republicans into small-town America. Edward G. Robinson represented a volunteer Democrat investigator assigned to find them and track them one at a time, and root them out.

Melvyn Douglas was really great, and he was given some great lines. I especially like his casual attitude the next day after he got stranded with Loy overnight, during the rainstorm. That was so funny!

Debbie and all her surviving family and friends do regard him as a hero.

He didn't kill any Indians except from Scar's crazy brutal "terrorist" band of Nawyeka Comanches, and they were the ones who killed Aunt Martha, Ethan's brother, and his niece Lucy. And Ethan's own mother's name is on a tombstone in the family cemetery, with a note that Comanches had killed her. Ethan was quite friendly with the Navajos and even did some trading with them and he felt bad when he discovered that the soldiers had killed Look (Martin's Indian Wife). The white girls in the guardhouse at the fort, the ones who had gone crazy, had gone crazy because of the years of multiple rapes and sexual abuse by Scar's band. That, and the murders of his family members, is why Ethan hated Scar's band, and you would hate them too if they did that to your family.

Actually, he ends up wanting to save her, and he did save her, and he was the only person in that entire cast who kept searching and searching until he did it.

That makes me admire Shane a lot. And the screenwriter and director too.

That's a good point about Shane being relaxed around Joey. And especially since Joey's gun is broken and won't shoot. And especially since Joey's mother is cute and the father is friendly, and the food is good and the roof don't leak. I also get the feeling that Shane likes seeing what normal family life is like. He even helps Joey's pa remove that ol' stump. Even as a kid, I remember that reviewers talked about that and I remember some men in my family who saw the movie talked about that stump thing too. All those men came from family backgrounds and mostly grew up on farms in the 1930s. They said the stump removal cooperation proved that Shane missed having a normal family life.

I love to see the new homes in "rural" Los Angeles, such as in Hollywood, the farmland of the San Fernando Valley, Burbank, etc. Lots of vacant land and only a few houses.

Could it be MON ONCLE? Lots of big American cars in France: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPs_A_Bf_uA

Ha, ha, ha...... What about all the young actor guys who specialized in imitating Brando in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE? What was that kind of acting called? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfvAzAUuULE

I love this movie. It is so funny, and so realistic, as anyone would know if they had ever tried to repair an old house or build one in an odd location. I owned a hundred-year-old Victorian one time, and owning it was just like this movie in many ways.

Kid, I'm going to have to back off on this a little. I spent way too much time on that last one. I've got to clean my house and go shopping for groceries. These photo puzzles are an obsession with me. Sometimes I work on them all day long, sometime 12 hours, morning, noon, and night. Sometimes I wake up at 3 and 4 am and have an idea and stagger in an turn on my computer to do some research.

After about 20 times of watching this film, I finally heard Ryker (in the bar that last time) call Shane a "gunman" and said something about his "time being over" (like out of date). I missed this line every time before, and it is the only one that confirms Shane had been a professional gunman. I used to wonder why the cattle men and the farmers didn't just compromise by having the farmers put up fences to keep the cattle out of the crops, and that would still leave millions of acres of cattle grazing land. But then I decided that the poor farmers could not afford that much fencing back in those days. I love this movie, and Shane is my hero too. I can't believe Jean Arthur is in her 50s. I think she looks like she is in her early 30s. She should have continued to make movies while Joan Crawford and Bette Davis should have stopped.

Of course you are right yet again. Also, keep in mind that Joey was alone as a kid and had no one to play with. There were other kids but they were miles away. So Shane was a big hero to Joey and his own special adult playmate. Plus, Shane's gun really worked, while Joey's did not.

It's an old Anglo-Saxon tradition. If the kidnappers are cute young men, and they can sing and dance, the legal system will sometimes overlook their old fashion habits, especially if the girls eventually give in and then dance and sing together with their kidnappers.

I've brightened up the train still, and it shows a train on a track that passes to the right of the camera, maybe moving East. On the left side of the screen is a telephone pole with four cross-bars, carrying maybe as many as 24 cables. The background is not clear, maybe a farmland area, a plains area, or maybe a desert area. No obvious trees. Kid, that last film of yours seems to have several European actors in it, and they are just about impossible to identify. I finally had to search a lot of NYC noir films from the late 40s and early 50s. The Keefe & Keefe Ambulance service is still in business in the Bronx.

July 1945, a B-25 Bomber crashes into the Empire State Building at the 90th floor. http://www.damninteresting.com/in-heavy-fog/

C-Man (1949) DEAN JAGGER

Yeah, well.... we ain't dead yet.

Bebe Daniels, silent version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1910:

According to this IMDB page, Benny Rubin made 198 movies and TV shows, up until 1985. He died in 1986. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0748014/ I think the reason he might have had to tone down some of his early ethnic humor for movies was because he was perceived among Jews around the US as ridiculing and being demeaning to Jews. For example, see his 1931 satire short, “JULIUS AND SIZZER”, which is based on the movie LITTLE CAESAR and in which he plays both the head gangster and the twin brother merchant. LOL, this is funny stuff. Ahh, the good old days! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDNnqBVReAs