Editing High Noon (section)

===Filming===
''High Noon'' was filmed in the late summer/early fall of 1951 in several locations in California. The opening scenes, under the [[Film credits|credits]], were shot at [[Iverson Movie Ranch]] near Los Angeles.  A few town scenes were shot in [[Columbia State Historic Park]], a preserved [[Gold Rush of 1849|Gold Rush]] mining town near [[Sonora, California|Sonora]], but most of the street scenes were filmed on the [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]] Movie Ranch in [[Burbank, California|Burbank]].  St. Joseph's Church in [[Tuolumne City, California|Tuolumne City]] was used for exterior shots of the Hadleyville church.  The railroad was the old [[Sierra Railroad]] in [[Jamestown, California|Jamestown]], a few miles south of Columbia, now known as [[Railtown 1897 State Historic Park]], and often nicknamed "the movie railroad" due to its frequent use in films and television shows. The railroad station was built for the film alongside a water tower at Warnerville, about 15 miles to the southwest.<ref>
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Cooper was reluctant to film the fight scene with Bridges due to ongoing problems with his back, but eventually did so without the use of a stunt double.  He wore no makeup to emphasize his character's anguish and fear, which was probably intensified by pain from recent surgery to remove a bleeding [[Gastric ulcer|ulcer]].<ref>Hyams, J. ''The Life and Times of the Western Movie.'' Gallery Books (1984), pp. 113–5.</ref>

The running time of the story almost precisely [[real time (media)|parallels]] the running time of the film—an effect heightened by frequent shots of clocks to remind the characters (and the audience) that the villain will be arriving on the noon train.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/830-high-noon |title=High Noon|author=Howard Suber|date=December 15, 1986|publisher=[[The Criterion Collection]]}}</ref>