Frontier Justice: An Alternative Form Of Dispute Resolution.
I just finished reading Glenn Frankel's "HIGH NOON: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic" (Bloomsbury 2017), an enjoyable, very readable and scholarly book about the making of the iconic Western and the scoundrel times of the Hollywood Blacklist, with portraits of those involved in the movie, in the Hollywood Blacklist, or both: the actors Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Lloyd Bridges, and Katy Jurado, the director Fred Zinneman, the writer, Carl Foreman, the editor Elmo Williams, the producer, Stanley Kramer, and the witness Martin Berkeley, who named names (more than 150). The movie's themes of rugged individualism, a weak community, lawlessness, and rough justice resonate in later American films, such as John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), and Don Siegel's Dirty Harry (1971). Gary Cooper's daughter, Maria Cooper Janis, described Marshal Will Kane, the character played by her father, as "a template for principle and courage that has seeped deeply into the global consciousness over the decades."
Glenn Frankel writes that the High Noon poster was transformed into a poster for Poland's Solidarity trade union movement in 1989, just before the first free election held in Poland in decades. Marshal Kane holds a folded ballot and has a Solidarity badge. The poster includes the message: HIGH NOON: 4 JUNE 1989.
Source: Wikipedia.
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