The movie High Noon (1952, Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly), has been regarded as an all-time great western, one of the classics. But, it should not be, at least for conservatives, although, the movie still has its defenders. I will go back to basics. John Wayne was right about the over-all degradation of the people who refused to stand against three bad guys, which is more consistent with modern man than 19th century pioneer stock. But, that is not the real issue and I have never seen this point stated before. The reason the outlaw Frank Miller, wanted to kill the marshal Will Kane has to do so over what seems to have been an extra-marital affair that Kane had with a Mexican women who conveniently leaves town before the gunfight, making no effort to defuse things. This event was missed by me many times seeing the movie, but if you look for it, the theme is there. For 1952, this is shocking and shows that the deconstruction of values began earlier than the 1960s. Compare this nasty piece of Leftism to John Ford (director) The Searchers, starring John Wayne, with no sexual immorality at all. Rio Bravo (1950), starring John Wayne and Dean Martin, basically a reply to the politically correct nonsense of High Noon, are better movies even if the pc bs was taken out of High Noon.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/07/09/our-high-noon-has-come/
“Many years ago, when Roger Ebert reported John Wayne’s comment about the great movie “High Noon,” I was surprised.
“What a piece of you-know-what that was,” Wayne said. “Here’s a town full of people who have ridden in covered wagons all the way across the plains, fightin’ off Indians and drought and wild animals in order to settle down and make themselves a homestead. And then when three no-good bad guys walk into town and the marshal asks for a little help, everybody in town gets shy. If I’d been the marshal, I would have been so goddamned disgusted with those chicken-livered yellow sons of bitches that I would have just taken my wife and saddled up and rode out of there.”
John Wayne was being too kind.