High Noon/YMMV

• Alternate Character Interpretation: Since we never really learn the history between Kane and Miller, some people come away from this movie with the impression that Kane really did send Miller to prison for unjust reasons, muddying which one of them is "in the right" during the events of the film.
• Fridge Brilliance: If you start watching the movie at approximately 10:50 in the morning, it will be noon when the film's time is "high noon".
  • The Implausible Synchrony of the clotches in the town is not so implausible when there's a prominent train at 12:00 every day.
• Narm: Due to an ominous soundtrack and dramatic close ups, Frank Miller's chair is the scariest piece of furniture in film.
• Retroactive Recognition: Kane tries to recruit Colonel Potter.
  • And McCrosky is one of Kane's ex-deputies.
  • Colby appears in a whole lot more Westerns, especially under Sergio Leone.
• Vindicated by History: Its short-term success in 1952 was wounded by accusations of subliminal Communism, especially due to the participation of screenwriter Carl Foreman. The next US President to take power, Dwight Eisenhower, was a Republican anti-Communist champion and the fact that he started the White House tradition of High Noon screenings definitely helped its reputation grow.