Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Grace Kelly, Otto Kruger, Lon Chaney Jr, Henry Morgan. Directed by Fred Zinnemann.
From Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song — High Noon is far from a mere western. It’s a nuanced tale of a man facing down the clock, learning about bravery, loyalty, faith, and love. It’s been remade in the big city as well as with mobsters and even with Sean Connery as an off-world federal agent who gets on the wrong side of a hit man at a mining colony on one of Jupiter’s moons.
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Unrelated to this, here is a recording of me reading from The Philosophy of Modern Song a day or two ago — not from the chapter that the above quote about this film is from — I will upload that here maybe once I find a previous recording of it — or record reading it again. I have recorded this particular part one or twice before — but here it is again…
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Best wishes,
nightly moth.
www.nightlymothpaintings.space
Venus and the Moon. 2025.
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