High Noon
HIGH NOON In the film HIGH NOON there is more than meets the eye concerning its political realities. During the early 1950's the American public was growing increasingly frightened about the possibility of internal subversion. McCarthyism was well underway by the time HIGH NOON hit the theaters. Therefore American people didn't like that it portrayed the government of the American frontier as falling apart, because of the actions of the "civilized" northern government. Consciously or un-consciously people related the western government (consisting of the marshal and his deputies) with America as a whole. When that government was ripped apart because of internal differences and differences in views the American people had only one thing to relate that to in their lives, which was the McCarthyism that was going on at that time.