High Noon tells the story of a lawman named Will Kane (Skerritt) who has just married a young bride, Amy (Thompson), promising to leave his dangerous career and settle down for a quiet life.

Gary Cooper Inspired Many Great Actors After Him The High Noon actor is said to have found out in February 1961 that he would not survive the illness. He lost the fight just a few months later.

On the day he gets married and hangs up his badge, Marshal Will Kane is told that a man he sent to prison years before, Frank Miller, is returning on the noon train to exact his revenge.