for All Seasons. In any event, respect for the Western hero has not been diminished by High Noon." The film was criticized in the Soviet Union as "glorification of the individual". In Chapter XXXV of The Virginian by Owen Wister, there is a description of an incident very similar to the central plot of High Noon. Trampas (a villain) calls out the Virginian, who has a new bride waiting whom he might lose if he engages in the gunfight. High Noon has even been described as a "straight remake" of the 1929 film version of The Virginian in which Cooper also starred. Accolades Entertainment Weekly ranked Will Kane on their list of The 20 All Time Coolest Heroes in Pop Culture. American Film Institute recognition 1998 AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies #33 2001 AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Thrills #20 2003 AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Heroes and Villains: Will Kane, Hero #5 2004 AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Songs: "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin')" #25 2005 AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores #10 2006 AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Cheers #27 2007 AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) #27 2008 AFI's 10 Top 10 #2 Western film Legacy and cultural influence High Noon is considered an early example of the revisionist Western. Kim Newman calls it the "most influential Western of the 1950s (because) its attitudes subtly changed the societal vision of the whole (Western) genre". The traditional format of the Western is of a strong male character leading the civilised against the uncivilised but, in this film, the civilised people fail (in a way described by John Wayne as "un-American") to support their town marshal. Newman draws the contrast between the "eerily neat and civilised" town of Hadleyville and the "gutlessness, self-interest and lack of backbone exhibited by its inhabitants" who will allow the town to "slip back into the savage past" from which Kane and his deputies once saved it. In his article, The Women of "High Noon": A Revisionist View, Don Graham argues that in addition to the man-alone theme, High Noon "represents a notable advance in the portrayal of women in Westerns". Compared with the "hackneyed presentation" of stereotypical women characters in earlier Westerns, High Noon grants the characters of Amy and Helen an expanded presence, the two being counterpoints. While Helen is socially inferior, she holds