High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane

High Noon, part II: The Return of Will Kane
Directed by	Jerry Jameson
Written by	Elmore Leonard
Starring	Lee Majors David Carradine Pernell Roberts
Studio	Universal Studios
Distributed by	CBS
Release date(s)	1980
Running time	96 min
Country	United States

High Noon part II: The Return of Will Kane, is the 1980 made-for television sequel to the classic Western Film High Noon. It starred Lee Majors, David Carradine and Pernell Roberts. It first aired on CBS on November 15, 1980 in a two-hour time-slot.

Plot

Will Kane returns to the town of Hadleyville (a year after the events of High Noon) which is in the hands of a corrupt sheriff and his two aides. J.D. Ward, the man that replaced Kane as sheriff, is a tyrant who shoots up the horses Will has just purchased. Ward is after Ben Irons and his men because of wanted posters, even though Ward knows they are innocent. Ben gets away. Ward pursues him. Kane decides to help Ben. Ben dies from a gunshot wound. Ward is going to arrest Kane for helping Ben, but the town rallies together and issues a warrant for Ward's arrest. Miracle-like, Kane again puts on the tin star (that he threw on the ground at the end of the 1952 original movie) and shoots Ward to death.

In 1966, Four-Star productions aired a "High Noon" half-hour television pilot entitled "The Clock Strikes Noon Again", with Peter Fonda as the adult son of Will Kane. It did not sell as a series.

High Noon is available on DVD, and yet, oddly, the two sequels to it are not, thus making it impossible to get the complete trilogy on home video.

Starring

• Lee Majors as Will Kane
• David Carradine as Ben Irons
• Pernell Roberts as Marshal J.D. Ward
• Katherine Cannon as Amy Kane
• Frank Campanella as Dr. Losey
• J.A. Preston as Alonzo
• Director: Jerry Jameson.

References

• Stagecoach to tombstone: the filmgoers' guide to the great westerns Escrito por Howard Hughes
• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080870/