FAQ

Mr. Stanton's first movie role was in 1957 so probably not.

High Noon is based on the short story The Tin Star by American author, John W. Cunningham (1915-2002). It appeared in Colliers Magazine in 1947. The story was adapted for the screen by American screenwriter and film producer, Carl Foreman. According to documentaries on the Ultimate Collector's Edition DVD, Foreman wrote the script before reading the story, but when he saw the similarities to The Tin Star, he had the studio buy the rights to it, just in case he had somehow read it and forgot about it.

There are several, e.g., Alfred Hitchcock's Cocktail für eine Leiche (1948), in which two men throw a party for a guest that they have just murdered. At another real-time dinner party, six guests attempt to solve a murder in Alle Mörder sind schon da (1985). Die zwölf Geschworenen (1957) focuses on a jury's deliberations in a capital murder case. In Ring frei für Stoker Thompson (1949) an over-the-hill boxer is set-up to take a dive, while in Gegen die Zeit (1995), a man must choose between killing the governor in 90 minutes or having his daughter killed. In Nicht auflegen! (2002), a man is trapped in a phone booth with a rifle laser aimed at him. Two ex-lovers stroll the streets of Paris talking about their past in Before Sunset (2004). Flug 93 (2006) recounts the events aboard doomed flight United 93, the fourth terrorist attack plane on September 11, 2001, and in 16 Blocks (2006), a detective must walk a convict from a jail to the courthouse 16 blocks away. In the dreamlike Russian Ark - Eine einzigartige Zeitreise durch die Eremitage (2002) (Russian Ark), a French diplomat guides the audience through the Hermitage in St Petersburg, Russia.