High Noon

High Noon is a 1952 American Western directed by Fred Zinnemann from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, starring Gary Cooper as small-town marshal Will Kane, who must face an outlaw gang alone after the townsfolk refuse to stand with him. Told in near-real time, with Dimitri Tiomkin's title ballad "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'" punctuating the action, the film won four Academy Awards (including Best Actor for Cooper) and is regarded as one of the greatest Westerns ever made (Wikipedia)