High Noon Quotes

High Noon is a TV program that was first aired in 1970 . High Noon ended its run in 1970.

It features Stanley Kramer as producer, Dimitri Tiomkin in charge of musical score, and Floyd Crosby as head of cinematography.

High Noon is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of High Noon is 85 minutes long. High Noon is distributed by United Artists.

The cast includes: Katy Jurado as Helen, Lon Chaney Jr. as Martin, Grace Kelly as Amy, Otto Kruger as Judge, Lucien Prival as Joe, Gary Cooper as Will, and Harry Morgan as Sam.

High Noon Quotes

Grace Kelly as Amy

• (Grace Kelly) "Don't try to be a hero. You don't have to be a hero, not for me."

• (Hotel Clerk) "You're Mrs. Kane, ain't you?"
• (Grace Kelly) "Yes."
• (Hotel Clerk) "You're leaving on the noon train?"
• (Grace Kelly) "Yes."
• (Hotel Clerk) "But your husband ain't?"
• (Grace Kelly) "No, why?"
• (Hotel Clerk) "No reason, but it'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."

Lucien Prival as Joe

• (Lucien Prival) "I've got no use for Kane, but he's got guts."
• (Unnamed) "You're mighty broadminded, Joe."

Katy Jurado as Helen

• (Katy Jurado) "Kane will be a dead man in half an hour and nobody's gonna do anything about it. And when he dies, this town dies too. I can feel it. I am all alone in the world. I have to make a living. So I'm going someplace else. That's all."

• (Katy Jurado) "What kind of woman are you? How can you leave him like this? Does the sound of guns frighten you that much?"
• (Grace Kelly) "I've heard guns. My father and my brother were killed by guns. They were on the right side but that didn't help them any when the shooting started. My brother was nineteen. I watched him die. That's when I became a Quaker. I don't care who's right or who's wrong. There's got to be some better way for people to live. Will knows how I feel about it."

• (Katy Jurado) "You're a good-looking boy: you've big, broad shoulders. But he's a man. And it takes more than big, broad shoulders to make a man."

• (Katy Jurado) "I don't understand you. No matter what you say. If Kane was my man, I'd never leave him like this. I'd get a gun. I'd fight."
• (Grace Kelly) "Why don't you?"
• (Katy Jurado) "He is not my man. He's yours."

Lon Chaney Jr. as Martin

• (Lon Chaney Jr.) "You risk your skin catching killers and the juries turn them loose so they can come back and shoot at you again. If you're honest you're poor your whole life and in the end you wind up dying all alone on some dirty street. For what? For nothing. For a tin star."

• (Lon Chaney Jr.) "People gotta talk themselves into law and order before they do anything about it. Maybe because down deep they don't care. They just don't care."

Gary Cooper as Will

• (Gary Cooper) "Johnny, why aren't you in church?"
• (Johnny - Town Boy) "Why aren't you?"

• (Gary Cooper) "Stay at the hotel until it's over."
• (Grace Kelly) "No, I won't be here when it's over. You're asking me to wait an hour to find out if I'm going to be a wife or a widow. I say it's too long to wait. I won't do it."
• (Gary Cooper) "Amy."
• (Grace Kelly) "I mean it. If you won't go with me now, I'll be on that train when it leaves here."

• (Gary Cooper) "What do you want?"
• (Johnny - Town Boy) "I found them, all but Mr Henderson."
• (Gary Cooper) "I found him, thanks."
• (Johnny - Town Boy) "You're welcome. Marshal, let me fight with you. I ain't afraid."
• (Gary Cooper) "No."
• (Johnny - Town Boy) "Please, let me, Marshal."
• (Gary Cooper) "You're a kid. You're a baby."
• (Johnny - Town Boy) "I'm sixteen. I can handle a gun, too."
• (Gary Cooper) "You're fourteen. What do you wanna lie for?"
• (Johnny - Town Boy) "I'm big for my age. Please, Marshal."
• (Gary Cooper) "Well, you're big for your age, but no, go on, get out of here."

• (Gary Cooper) "Go on home to your kids, Herb."

• (Gary Cooper) "This is crazy, I don't even have any guns."

• (Gary Cooper) "I've got to, that's the whole thing."

• (Gary Cooper) "Don't shove me Harv. I'm tired of being shoved."

Harry Morgan as Sam

(We don't have any quotes for this character)

Otto Kruger as Judge

• (Otto Kruger) "This is just a dirty little village in the middle of nowhere. Nothing that happens here is really important."

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