Carl Foreman (author of the High Noon screenplay): “What High Noon was about at that time was Hollywood and no other place but Hollywood. And that was perfectly recognizable to people in Hollywood when they saw the picture.”

John Wayne (Playboy, May 1971): “It’s the most un-American thing I’ve ever seen in my whole life. The last thing in the picture is ol’ Coop putting the United States marshall’s badge under his foot and stepping on it.”

“I’ll never regret having helped run Foreman out of the country…”