On the face of it, you can see the sense in adapting Fred Zinnemann's four-time Oscar-winner to the theatre, complete with an argument about the efficacy of gun violence that gets handed to Amy ...

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. This stage production of the great Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly wagon High Noon continues its history of wrongfooting ...

London theatre never ceases to surprise and this boggling staging of the classic 1952 Gary Cooper western is a case in point. Like Fred Zinnemann’s film, Eric Roth’s adaptation unfolds in ...

The 20th century’s great movie Westerns have given us so many enjoyably kitschy tropes: swaggering cowboys, tough sheriffs with shiny badges, ruffle-skirted saloon girls, and quick-draw gun battles.

Even Denise Gough and Billy Crudup couldn’t save this production, which lacks all the necessary tension Dominic Cavendish has been writing about theatre and comedy since the mid-1990s and became the ...

Crudup and Denise Gough lead a tense adaptation that turns the film into a debate play whose McCarthy-era roots resonate powerfully today How do you turn a classic Hollywood western into West End ...

Read our review of High Noon, adapted by Eric Roth, now in performances at the Harold Pinter Theatre to 6 March. The 1952 Western film High Noon, which starred Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly, saw ...

Eric Roth has a storied career as a writer of movies, 50 years in Tinseltown with credits for the likes of Forrest Gump and Killers of the Flower Moon on his CV. I’ve seen too many successful ...

In 1952, Fred Zinnemann’s classic Western High Noon was released against the backdrop of the activities of the House of Un-American Activities Committee, which cut a swathe through American civil ...

He’s written screen smashes like Dune and Killers of the Flower Moon. As Eric Roth plunges into theatre, he talks about classic westerns, being sacked by Robert Redford – and why writing for Martin ...