Johnny Guitar
Summary:
One of the strangest westerns on record, Johnny Guitar has less in common with Zane Grey than it does with Sigmund Freud and Krafft-Ebbing. The title character, played by Sterling Hayden, is a guitar-strumming drifter who was once the lover of Arizona saloon-owner Vienna (Joan Crawford). Though her establishment doesn't make a dime, Vienna doesn't care because the ra... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Joan Crawford - (Vienna)
Sterling Hayden - (Johnny Guitar)
Mercedes McCambridge - (Emma Small)
Scott Brady - (Dancin'Kid)
Ward Bond - (John McIvers)
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Review:
Few Westerns more obviously begged the question "What was the studio thinking?" than Nicholas Ray's brilliantly perverse Johnny Guitar. Ray had a knack for finding subversive subtexts in standard material, and on the surface Johnny Guitar's outlaws on the run, factions battling over a town's future, and love and betrayal among the tumbl... Continue >>
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