Three Stars: ˜˜˜
Most modern audiences don’t understand this movie. They don’t understand why it won four Oscars in 1952; or how you can watch it for two hours without action; or why the marshal refuses to compromise and leave town before noon. This film is about doing what is right, no matter the consequences—even if everyone, even your bride leaves you to die alone, even then you still defend them. Anyone who perseveres through watching this movie to the arrival of the noon train never forgets it.
MEMORABLE QUOTES
“You're a good looking boy, you have big broad shoulders—but he is a man. It takes more than big broad shoulders to make a man.”
“There's no time for a lesson in civics, my boy. In the 5th century B.C., the citizens of Athens, having suffered grievously under a tyrant, managed to depose and banish him. However, when he returned after some years, with an army of mercenaries, those same citizens not only opened the gates to him, but stood by while he executed members of the legal government… A similar thing happened about eight years ago in a town called Indian Falls.”
“You're leaving on the noon train, but your husband ain't? ...That's mighty interesting. Now, me, I wouldn't leave this town at noon for all the tea in China. No sir, it's going to be quite a sight to see!”
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