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2008-2009 © & TM Inside High Noon/Moda Productions, A MODA Entertainment Company
Lionsgate DVD Trailer
INSIDE HIGH NOON VIDEOS
NOW ON DVD!!!
FROM LIONSGATE ENTERTAINMENT
HIGH NOON
THE ULTIMATE COLLECTORS EDITION DVD
MODA Entertainment’s new documentary, INSIDE HIGH NOON, which appears on the Lionsgate Ultimate Collectors DVD, explores both the remarkable film and the gripping story behind its troubled production. The real-life events behind the making of HIGH NOON make for rich drama, indeed.
When released, HIGH NOON was seen as an attack on HUAC. However, this means little to an audience today. INSIDE HIGH NOON examines with fresh insight what makes HIGH NOON timeless, and why it works so powerfully still, 56 years after its release.
THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY OF HIGH NOON
For many people, HIGH NOON is the western. For others, it is simply one of the greatest films of all time. A genuine masterpiece. It is has been viewed in the White House more times than any other film. It was President Eisenhower’s favorite film, as it is former President Clinton’s. Former Japanese Prime Minister Koizuma cites it as his favorite film. The list goes on.
But this low-budget -- $750,000 -- independent film has had a rocky road to its classic status. Every studio turned it down. Seemingly half of Hollywood’s leading men turned it down. And its initial preview was an utter disaster.
The House un-American Activities Committee was in overdrive in 1951. And High Noon was in its cross-hairs. At least half-a-dozen people involved in High Noon were blacklisted; among them, screenwriter Carl Foreman and cinematographer Floyd Crosby.
Gary Cooper, who had testified before HUAC in 1947 as a “friendly” witness (even though he had named no names, named no scripts, and was only there, as he put it: “To show the committee that Hollywood was not a nest of Communists”), put his career on the line for ex-Communist Carl Foreman during and after production, hailing Foreman as “The finest kind of American.”
The real-life story behind the making of HIGH NOON is dramatic, suspenseful, gripping. Like the film itself, it’s a story of fear, of heroism, and the very real danger of political abuse. What happens up on the screen is in many ways a metaphor for the extraordinary events behind the camera.
But Inside High Noon also explores the film itself:
why it has aroused controversy among critics
why its treatment of women was far ahead of its time
why its treatment of masculinity was far ahead of its time
why it has remained popular decades and decades after its release
Indeed, why High Noon is the masterpiece it is.
ON CAMERA PARTICIPANTS:
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON
42nd President of The United States of America
PRINCE ALBERT OF MONACO
Son of Grace Kelly
MARIA COOPER
Daughter of Gary Cooper
JONATHAN FOREMAN
Son of Screenwriter Carl Foreman
BRIAN GARFIELD
Author/Screenwriter
LEE CLARK MITCHELL
Princeton University
STEPHEN PRINCE
Virginia Tech
M.Z. RIBALOW
Fordam University
TIM ZINNEMANN
Son of Director Fred Zinnenmann
PRODUCTION CREDITS:
Writer/Director/ Producer
John Mulholland
Editor
Brian McNulty
Producers
Shannon Mulholland
Richard Zampella
Executive Producer
MODA Entertainment
In Association with
Paramount
Home Video Distributed by
Lionsgate Entertainment
OTHER DOCUMENTARIES
FROM JOHN MULHOLLAND
Cooper and Hemingway
Sergeant York: Of God & Country
Meet Me In St. Louis
Original Theatrical Trailer
Interview with writer John Mulholland
INSIDE HIGH NOON
NARRATED BY FRANK LANGELLA
A DOCUMENTARY ON THE 1952 FILM STARRING GARY COOPER & GRACE KELLY
A MODA ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH PARAMOUNT PICTURES
DISTRIBUTED ON HOME VIDEO BY LIONSGATE ENTERTAINMENT
INSIDE HIGH NOON -- A DOCUMENTARY BY JOHN MULHOLLAND
ABOUT LICENSEBOX: LICENSBOX a subsidiary of MODA Entertainment, Inc. is a broad-based merchandising and licensing company, which has a particularly strong presence in the Classic Hollywood and Golden Age of Hollywood sectors of the entertainment market. Key clients in this category include Duke Ellington, Greta Garbo, Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, Douglas Fairbanks, George Raft, Loretta Young, Ida Lupino amongst others. ABOUT MODA ENTERTAINMENT: MODA Entertainment, Inc., headquartered in New York City, is a full service multi-media entertainment company involved in development, production, packaging, marketing, distributing, licensing in all on and offline media. MODA Entertainment’s fully owned subsidiaries include MODA Productions, MODA Publishing, LICENSEBOX, PUBLICITYBOX and ICONS. Since its inception in 1997, MODA Entertainment has maintained the unique and singular vision to keep the legacy of Classic Hollywood alive and flourishing. MODA subsidiaries consist of Production, Publishing, Licensing and Public Relations. Moda Entertainment has produced documentaries for warner home video to include: Sergeant York of God and Country narrated by Liam Neeson, Inside High Noon narrated by Frank Langella, Meet Me in St Louis with Liza Minnelli and Cooper and Hemingway:The True Gen narrated by Sam Waterston. Licensebox recently signed an agreement with Bank of America which feature Humphrey Bogart on a Credit Card.