Independent U.S. distributors Olive Films have announced that they will
release on Blu-ray new 4K restorations of two classic films: Fred
Zinnemann's High Noon (1952), starring Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Lon
Chaney Jr., Lloyd Bridges, and Katy Jurado, and Nicholas Ray's
Johnny Guitar (1954), starring Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Scott Brady, Mercedes McCambridge, and Ward Bond.
High Noon
The upcoming Blu-ray releases will be part of the distributors' new line, Olive Signature.
The myth and poetry of the old west come alivein Fred Zinnemann's
(Julia) classic western, High Noon (1952). One of the great treasures of
the American cinema, the film stars the legendary Gary Cooper as lawman
Will Kane, a marshal who stands alone to defend a town of cowardly
citizens against a gangof killers out for revenge. Engaged in the fight
of his lifetime, Kane stands to lose everything when the clock strikes
noon– his friends, his honor, and his Quaker bride, played by Grace
Kelly inoneof her first screen roles. Unfolding in real time, the
tension builds aswe race ever closer to the climactic duel from which
the film takes its name.
For his career-defining role, Cooper would goonto win the Oscar for Best
Actor. High Noon's stellar cast also includes Lloyd Bridges (Try and
Get Me), Thomas Mitchell (It's a Wonderful Life), Katy Jurado (Pat
Garrett & Billy the Kid),Otto Kruger (Saboteur),Lon Chaney (The Wolf
Man), Henry Morgan (Strategic Air Command), Jack Elam (Hannie Caulder)
and Lee Van Clef (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly).