Firecreek made it possible for audiences to see what it would have been like had High Noon been a James Stewart Western.

The ticking clock will become Figueroa's worst enemy, while he has to face his fears and insecurities in order to confront his enemy just outside the school at high noon.

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.

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.