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High Noon’s Secret Backstory

How Carl Foreman, while tangling with the House Un-American Activities Committee, turned a throwaway Western into an allegory for the Hollywood blacklist.

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Excerpted from High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic.

Glenn Frankel Vanity Fair Feb 2017 25min Permalink