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Amazon.com essential video: "I've never seen a woman who was more like a man," a character observes of Vienna (Joan Crawford), who has just opened a saloon that hasn't exactly endeared itself to the local townspeople. Emma (Mercedes McCambridge), the local sexually repressed, lynch-happy harpy, is particularly displeased. Vienna is wooed both by the Dancin' Kid (Scott Brady) and by Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden), a peripatetic tough guy-turned-troubadour with whom she has a past.
When the Kid's gang (which includes Ernest Borgnine) decides to knock over the bank before heading to California, Emma wants just about everyone in sight on the business end of a rope. Nicolas Ray's 1954 epic was considered one of the downright strangest Westerns of all time--the women were far tougher than the men (Johnny watches on laconically during the bank robbery, not bothering with heroics), and some saw in the film a bizarre allegory for the McCarthy Red scare. A half-century later, it's still a curious, intriguing piece of moral ambiguity from a time when such a thing ostensibly didn't exist. Hayden is an enigmatic presence, and Crawford's commanding star turn is what you'd expect. --David Kronke
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Perhaps the worst studio movie ever made
I saw this when I was 10 and just saw it again. It was awful then and worse now. A complete waste of time and talent. Idiotic and stupid. Bad, Bad, Bad.
Rating: - NICHOLAS RAY, OPUS 9
***** 1954. A movie based on Roy Chanslor's Johnny Guitar and directed by Nicholas Ray. This DVD doesn't offer any bonus features and the copy, in Trucolor, is of average quality. Joan Crawford asks Sterling-Johnny Guitar-Hayden to protect her against Mercedes McCambridge and his friends who accuse her to be the accomplice of the Dancin' Kid. Huge and incredibly intelligent western that propelled Nicholas Ray among the top American directors of the 50's. The work on the colours is superb especially if one thinks of the vulcano metaphor that starts with the explosions caused by the railroad company and ends with the burning of Vienna's saloon. One of the ten best American westerns ever made. Masterpiece.
Rating: - Bizarre & hysterical
The finest lesbian western ever! Watch it as a simple entertainment or as a wonderland of Freudian symbolism; either way you'll be mesmerized and astonished. Highly recommended!
Rating: - best-western
This is the Original Brokeback Mountain...! With none other than Miss Joan Crawford, super-butch (or superbitch?) Mercedes McCambridge and all those sexy cowboys with their low-hanging, droopy... ...holsters, "Johnny Guitar" has become, overtime, an iconic reference in g-a-y popular culture. It's like watching a p-o-r-n-o from the 1950's! One of my favorite lines (Bart saying to Johnny) is, "open your mouth cowboy and I'll feed you." I can almost hear The Charlie Daniels Band saying, "sit down in that chair and let me show you how it's done" every time I watch this part! ...I love it, because like this entire Republic Pictures feature film, it's so very ticklishly grand...!! Simply put: "Johnny Guitar" is as scrumptious and titillating as Dallas, Melrose Place and The Golden Girls!!
Joan really is the actress of the 20th Century, and beyond... In the 1950's during a boring time in her career (this movie is smack-dab in the middle of Torch Song and the even more obscure, "Female On The Beach") she decided to re-invent herself as a western rebel in "Johnny Guitar." However I hate to admit it, but "Johnny Guitar" is one of those incredibly rare Joan Crawford movies that I would have thoroughly munched on even if she weren't in it!
Oh, before I forget, here's the particulars of this cult-classic:
Johnny Guitar (May 27, 1954) (Studio: Republic)
Distributor: Paramount (Although correct me if I'm wrong, but I honestly believe that Turner/Warner Home Video has their hand in just about all of Joan's films, even those that aren't from the MGM or Warners libraries.)
Director: Nicholas Ray
Runtime Listing: 110 mins
Color/BW: Color (Trucolor)
(Joan played: Vienna)
Brief Synopsis:
A lady saloon owner battles a female rancher out to frame her for murder.
And here's the main cast (actually, these are my favorites, from the main cast!:)
Joan Crawford ~ The Star of the Show ~ Vienna
Mercedes McCambridge ~ Emma Small
Sterling Hayden ~ Johnny 'Guitar' Logan
Scott Brady ~ Dancin' Kid
Ben Cooper ~ Turkey Ralston
Ernest Borgnine ~ Bart Lonergan
Royal Dano ~ Corey
Frank Ferguson ~ Marshal Williams
"Johnny Guitar" is actually based on a novel by Roy Chanslor and is undisputedly the granddaddy of the Female Western Film, because it proudly serves as the original prototype of this genre. It's also a little known-fact that there really was a real Johnny "Guitar!" Johnny "Guitar" Watson was a well-known musician, who adopted his moniker ... Read More
Rating: - Johnny Guitar - The spoof musical
Very well put together spoof of westerns put together as a musical.
I watched this production this year at the Cedar City Fall theatre festival. Well done and funny/
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