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In my opinion this film combines several elements that fully explain its success:excellent performances,nice screenplay, fabulous director and a good story. All of these features led to a good entertainment and to one of the best films of all times.

I would like to stress that Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster and Debora Kerr gave us a lesson about how to act, how to compose a character. Their performances are among the best ever played in this industry history.

Moreover Zinnemann proves all his talent and competence. The scene of the kiss on the beach is a magical moment of the cinema! It translates all the passion, the search of a true love by the characters and perfectly describes the kind of feelings that dominated the characters.

High Noon is really an interesting film and a good entertainment. It is directed by a brilliant filmmaker,Zinnemann, who uses a thriller atmosphere mixed with classical western elements to produce a pearl of the genre. The plot was an innovation itself as I cannot remember other previous film that combined all the elements found in this one. Moreover it is worth to mention Katy Jurado, in my opinion, she does the best job in this film. Notwithstanding Gary Cooper is a star an very familiarized with this kind of film, I did not like his performance in this film. In some moments, where Will Kane was under considerable pressure, he was not able to demonstrate all the tension and doubts that take control of the character. The dialogues are interesting and totally met their aim: to support the atmosphere of fear and anxiety that dominated the city.

This film is very good indeed. Visconti confirms what everybody knows: he is a master! The plot is based on a Dostoievski tale, where a love triangle is explored in the minimum psychological details. Actually, it shows the impact of a powerful passion on human behavior, it tries to explore the incredible power that love has on people's behavior, mainly when passion and irresistible attraction are present. The author tries to show that we are capable of believing anything as well as having childish attitudes when we are confronted with passion. Moreover Visconti is very elegant when dealing with all the elements, combining them with great precision.

Also it is fine to see Maria Schell and Mastroianni acting.