[Vaquero]

John Wayne told an interviewer that he considered High Noon “the most un-American thing I've ever seen in my whole life”,[33] and later teamed with director Howard Hawks to make Rio Bravo in response. “I made Rio Bravo because I didn't like High Noon,” Hawks explained. “Neither did Duke [Wayne]. I didn't think a good town marshal was going to run around town like a chicken with his head cut off asking everyone to help. And who saves him? His Quaker wife. That isn't my idea of a good Western.”

The screenplay writer was blacklisted shortly after the movie came out.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Interesting that John Wayne never liked High Noon.

High Noon has never worked for me, despite its massive popularity. I just never found it to be a compelling western. I can’t explain why. I don’t think it un-American, I just don’t find it to be a particularly entertaining Western movie.