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Johnny Guitar

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Johnny Guitar (1954)

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Reviews Counted: 18 Fresh: 17  Rotten:1 Average Rating: 8.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Synopsis:
An off-kilter but intriguingly sensational western about a lady saloon-keeper who learns her wealth and power can't buy everything as a town full of jealous monsters try to overrun her property. Women wear the pants (and guns) in this pre-feminist exercise in gender neutrality.... [More]
An off-kilter but intriguingly sensational western about a lady saloon-keeper who learns her wealth and power can't buy everything as a town full of jealous monsters try to overrun her property. Women wear the pants (and guns) in this pre-feminist exercise in gender neutrality. [Less]

Genre: Westerns

Starring: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Ernest Borgnine, Scott Brady

Director: Nicholas Ray
Screenwriter: Philip Yordan
Producer: Herbert J. Yates
Composer: Victor Young

DVD Info

Release:

Apr 4, 1995

[DVD Details]
  • Martin Scorcese introduces and puts this classic film in proper historical context.
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    02/29/08 08:59 PM
    Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
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    It's about time it was acclaimed for it what it really is: a genuine western film classic.

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    10/23/07 01:30 PM
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    Ray's film is not a romantic comedy, but a Western. Or is it?

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    06/24/06 03:30 AM
    Geoff Andrew
    Time Out
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    Let's put it down as a fiasco. Miss Crawford went thataway.

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    03/25/06 03:35 AM
    Bosley Crowther
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    04/14/04 10:15 PM
    Leo Goldsmith
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    For all its slightly tatty sets and off-the-mark decor, the film abounds in wonderful lines and acting that doesn't betray them.

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    01/15/04 05:09 PM
    Derek Malcolm
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    10/17/03 01:51 PM
    Carol Cling
    Las Vegas Review-Journal
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    Compelling, confounding and at times verging on the downright camp, this picture takes a slow- burning but startlingly vivid look at humanity in the outlands.

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    05/24/03 08:10 AM
    Fran Hortop
    Channel 4 Film
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    Joan Crawford as a gunslinger. Some of the best unintentionally funny dialogue ever.

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    07/30/02 11:54 AM
    Philip Martin
    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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    One of those classic westerns that has maintained its status by reinventing itself every decade since its release in 1954.

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    07/11/02 03:35 PM
    John Petrakis
    Chicago Tribune
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    For all its violence, this is a surpassingly tender, sensitive film, Ray's gentlest statement of his outsider theme.

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    01/01/00 12:00 AM
    Dave Kehr
    Chicago Reader
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    The film makes much to do about sexual role-reversals.

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    Dennis Schwartz
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