Okay.
I got a replacement copy of High Noon.
Wow.
This movie is
intense. It
burns you. Points for making things logical and organized. The script is extremely tight and everything hangs together and makes sense. None of the characters are poorly done and all the secondary characters make do very impressively with an extremely limited amount of screen time. Extra points for having the time in the movie last almost exactly as long (if not exactly as long period) as the movie itself. Super extra points for being a western in made in 1952 that counts bullets properly.
But mostly the movie wins for being awesome. I was quite
literally on the edge of my seat and I can't remember the last time THAT happened in a movie.
After the climax, I actually turned to my wife and said "Wow... I think I came."