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People gotta talk themselves into law and order before they do anything about it. Maybe because down deep they don't care. They just don't care.

High Noon · 1952

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Rule of law Law and order

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High Noon. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Stanley Kramer Productions, 1952.

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