THE Life & Career of Actor

                                                                                    (7/4/1931 - 6/2/1977)

The Man Called Noon

In this movie, Boyd plays a mysterious American cowboy named Rimes. Of the character he later said:

He’s a mystery man and I think it’s a good idea to occasionally bring back a good character. He’s a bit like the man with no name, but he’s got more depth, more humor. I think he’s capable of more things on either side of the law. He’s got glamour. I think a lot of the glamour is missing in motion pictures today and it’s very necessary to bring it back. It’s interesting to really get to the bottom of the word ‘glamour’. It is almost impossible to have glamour without mystery. If there is too much explanation, too much knowledge, the glamour is diminished. It doesn’t matter how much you interview Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando or Steve McQueen, there is always the mystery. Once that goes, so too does the glamour.

I believe that Boyd truly enjoyed the cowboy roles, as he played one in the Bravados and Shalako in years prior. He played in Charge, another Western and expressed great interest in the Western genre in the past. It was a way for him to shred the everlasting "macho" Roman epic characters and to prove he was capable of so much more as an actor.