An old-fashioned clock is stationed over the stage like a warning, or a stopwatch, counting down the minutes until High Noon strikes and Marshal Will Kane must face the returning outlaw Frank Miller, arriving on the noon train. It's a potent image, borrowed from one of cinema's most elegant narrative devices: time itself as antagonist. […] The post The Clock Ticks, but the Stakes Never Rise: High Noon in the West E…
SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:39AM on January 10, 2026