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Westerns As Morality Plays: High Noon And The Hollywood Blacklist

Posted on February 6, 2018 · Writer Glenn Frankel discusses High Noon as a parable about the Hollywood blacklist. Then, film critic Joe Leydon talks about why the genre of Westerns fell out of favor.

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Westerns as Morality Plays: High Noon and the Hollywood Blacklist

Posted on March 1, 2017 · (Above: Gary Cooper in a scene from the 1952 Western “High Noon.”) Tonight (March 1, 2017) at 7 at Brazos Bookstore, journalist Glenn Frankel will discuss his new book, called High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic. The book is about the classic Hollywood western High Noon, which, of course, […]