Randolph Scott played a terrible jerk. He arrives in town and the first thing he does is threaten the barber.
Scott crashes the wedding of local bigshot Tate Kimbrough. When the minister asks if anyone knows any reason why the couple shouldn't be bound in holy matrimony, Scott knows a reason. Because he's going to murder the groom. He waves a gun around, flees the church and exchanges gunfire with wedding guests.
Turns out he's mad that Kimbrough slept with his wife three years earlier and he thinks this was somehow to blame for her suicide. His friend (Noah Beery, Jr) tries to tell him that she slept with lots of guys and Randolph Scott socks him.
High Noon's ending always bothered me. Gary Cooper rides away with an untreated gunshot wound. In this one, Kimbrough at least has his arm in a sling.
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