Whose Idea Was It?
Most people think that Carl Foreman wrote High Noon based on The Tin Star by John W. Cunningham. However, it actually wasn’t that straightforward. In a letter to Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, Foreman said he came up with the idea and wrote a four-page plot outline, then noticed similarities to The Tin Star afterward.
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Although Foreman bought the film rights to the short story, it became an issue later when he accused producer Stanley Kramer of taking too much credit away from him as the originator of the plot. Unfortunately for Foreman, Kramer’s cutting reply was: “What are you talking about? You adapted someone else’s story.”