Word: zinnemann
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...Member of the Wedding (Stanley Kramer; Columbia), the story of an unhappy twelve-year-old girl and her sympathetic Mammy, with Julie Harris and Ethel Waters (both top-actress hopefuls) in their original Broadway parts (see below). Director Fred Zinnemann, himself a good Oscar prospect, might lose out, paradoxically, if the vote for him is split between Member and his High Noon, whose star, Gary Cooper, is in the running for his second Oscar (his first: in 1941, for Sergeant York...
...Fred Zinnemann. 5. John Ford...
High Noon combines its points about good citizenship with some excellent picturemaking. Carl (Champion) Foreman's screenplay is lean and muscular, and as noteworthy for its silences as for its sounds. And Fred (The Men) Zinnemann's direction wrings the last ounce of suspense from the scenario with a sure sense of timing and sharp, clean cutting. The picture builds from 10:40 a.m. to its high noon climax in a crescendo of ticking clocks, shots of the railroad tracks stretching long and level into the distant hills and of the hushed, deserted streets of Hadleyville. Throughout...