RaveThe Wall Street JournalIn his wide-screen narrative, High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic, cultural historian Glenn Frankel follows the outrageous fortunes of the film and its creators … The House Committee on Un-American Activities began to probe for Communist influence in Celluloid City. As a shelf of books have indicated, the congressmen pursued ink and air time as avidly as they hunted ‘subversives’ … The movie High Noon, great in itself, is all the greater for the backstory Mr. Frankel tells.
