High Noon is one of the the most famous Westerns of all time.

Gary Cooper (who won as Oscar for the role) stars as the upright sheriff awaiting a posse of bad guys to arrive on the noon train. The cowardly townspeople refuse to help him so he (and ultimately his new wife, played by a young Grace Kelly) go it alone. 

The story plays out in real time, with lots of shots of clocks to convey the countdown to the noon showdown.

High Noon is considered an early revisionist Western and a left-leaning allegory (at the time of the McCarthy anti-Communist blacklists). John Wayne famously hated it, calling the movie “the most un-American thing I’ve ever seen in my whole life.”

This French ‘moyenne’ poster has already been sold.