High Noon filming locations
Film locations: California
High Noon filming location: Sheriff Will Kane appeals for help: St Joseph's Church, Tuolumne City, California
Sheriff Will Kane (Gary Cooper) stands alone against the baddies, but fortunately wife Amy (Grace Kelly) does not forsake him in Fred Zinnemann’s classic film.
The opening scenes, under the credits, were shot at the Iverson Ranch near Chatsworth, north of Los Angeles, but the fictitious ‘Hadleyville, New Mexico’ was to have been played by the Main Street of Columbia State Historic Park, a preserved goldrush town in northern California.
By the time the crew arrived, however, spring had arrived and the bleak, bare main street of Columbia had burst into green leafiness.
High Noon filming location: too lush and green for filming: Columbia State Park, California
In the end, they used the Western Street at, by coincidence, Columbia Pictures in Burbank.
Some of the real mining town remains in the picture, though. You canít miss the white picket fence of Sam Fuller (Harry Morgan), the cowardly friend who sends his wife to claim heís not at home. This is the Wilson House on Main Street, a few doors away from Visitor Center, and the last privately-owned home in the town.
High Noon filming location: the home of cowardly Sam Fuller: Wilson House, Main Street, Columbia State Park, California
Columbia State Historic Park is just east of the town of Columbia, 45 miles northeast of Modesto in Tuolumne County.
A few miles southeast of Columbia youíll find the church where Kane pleads for special deputies to face Frank Miller. Itís St Josephís Catholic Church, Gardner Avenue at Tuolumne Road in Tuolumne City, not a city at all but a tiny town just off Route 108.
High Noon filming location: the Sierra Railroad, Oakdale, California
The railroad station was built alongside a watertower at Warnerville, a little to the southwest, about 14 miles east of Oakdale on the Sierra Railroad. The famous railroad, seen in many films over the years, is still running. You can ride the vintage train at Oakdale, central California.
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High Noon, 1978
Director
Cast
- Gary Cooper
- Thomas Mitchell
- Grace Kelly
- Lloyd Bridges
- Otto Kruger
- Katy Jurado
- Harry Morgan
- Lee Van Cleef
visit the film locations
Columbia State Historic Park is just east of the town of Columbia, 45 miles northeast of Modesto in Tuolumne County (open daily; tel: 209/532.4301)
Ride the Sierra Railroad. The Sierra Railroad Train Station is located at 220 South Sierra Avenue, Oakdale.Call 800.866.1690 for reservations: Monday-Saturday, 8 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Trivia
You can see the Sierra Railroad in many films, including the Marx Bros' Go West, My Little Chickadee with WC Fields and Mae West, Apache, The Great Race and – oops! – Howard the Duck.