Why? I doubt Joe would, particularly the last paragraph at your link...
Director Fred Zinnemann, an Austrian Jew, saw himself as steering the film toward a message movie about European failure to fight fascism until it was too late. Zinnemans vision is ultimately the one that prevails. Kanes little town isnt populated by Joe McCarthys but by Neville Chamberlains.
well yeah I should have posted a connection to a strictly anti- high noon article.
the script was so bad and so transparent that John Wayne new what it was in a minute and rejected it as being commie. Gary cooper didnt realize what it was.