1. “I never met a woman who was more man.” movie review (1954)
“Johnny Guitar” is about the hatred between Vienna and Emma, and Sterling Hayden seems to know it. Brought into town as fire-power when Vienna fears gun trouble ...
Johnny:Don't go away.
2. “Johnny Guitar”: One of the Greatest Westerns and the Furthest Extreme ...
30 aug 2022 · What “Johnny Guitar” offers above all is a concentrated force of style in action, even during the extended early set piece: the confrontation in ...
Nicholas Ray’s movie, starring Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden, is a theory of cinema in motion.
3. Johnny Guitar review – unforgettably strange, brilliant western
5 mei 2016 · Nicholas Ray's 1954 gem, starring Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden, is an extraordinary psychological drama.
Nicholas Ray’s 1954 gem, starring Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden, is an extraordinary psychological drama
4. Johnny Guitar | Rotten Tomatoes
Johnny Guitar is really two movies: a hard-hitting critique of McCarthyism, wrapped inside a campy western with a ridiculous storyline. The silly costumes and ...
On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna (Joan Crawford) owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid (Scott Brady) and his gang. Another patron of Vienna's establishment is Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden), a former gunslinger and her lover. When a heist is pulled in town that results in a man's death, Emma Small (Mercedes McCambridge), Vienna's rival, rallies the townsfolk to take revenge on Vienna's saloon -- even without proof of her wrongdoing.
5. Johnny Guitar (1954) - Motion State Review
17 sep 2022 · Johnny Guitar is the rare Western to improve with age rather than become dated by an idealistic masculinity.
Strong female character is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot in woke film crit, and it’s probable that the arbiter of this particular criteria should maybe be someone other than weak mal…
6. Johnny Guitar — Nicholas Ray | In Review Online
31 aug 2023 · In Johnny Guitar, Nicholas Ray's phantasmagorical 1954 Western, it takes fewer than two minutes for a deafening explosion of dynamite to ring out.
A new film criticism piece on Johnny Guitar, directed by Nicholas Ray, for film review site In Review Online.
7. Johnny Guitar (1954) directed by Nicholas Ray • Reviews, film + cast
One bold choice that pays off after another. And such forceful violence. Also, for all the film's camp reputation Johnny Guitar never got enough credit for how ...
On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang. Another patron of Vienna's establishment is Johnny Guitar, a former gunslinger and her lover. When a heist is pulled in town that results in a man's death, Emma Small, Vienna's rival, rallies the townsfolk to take revenge on Vienna's saloon – even without proof of her wrongdoing.
8. Johnny Guitar (Film, 1954) - MovieMeter.nl
Western film geregisseerd door Nicholas Ray. Met Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden en Mercedes McCambridge.
9. 'Johnny Guitar (1954)' reviewed by Nick Burton - Pif Magazine
It may be the weirdest Western ever made in this country, a veritable opera of repressed sexuality, and, accepting its cult reputation, a thinly veiled assault ...
To say Nicholas Ray's 1954 Western Johnny Guitar is an unconventional addition to the genre is an understatement. It may be the weirdest Western ever made in this country, a veritable opera of repressed sexuality...
10. Review: Johnny Guitar (1954) - STARK HOLBORN
20 mrt 2020 · Based on the book by Roy Chanslor (who also wrote The Ballad of Cat Ballou) Johnny Guitar is weird, subversive, camp as hell and utterly unforgettable.
Stark says: “Gun-Queen of the Arizona Frontier! And her kind of men!!!”
11. Why Johnny Guitar remains a superior subversive western - Little White Lies
20 sep 2021 · Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar came out in 1954, one year after the release of Shane, and a good decade before the cycle of Spaghetti westerns got ...
With its progressive gender politics and liberal undertow, Nicholas Ray’s 1954 film was way ahead of its time.
12. Johnny Guitar 1954, directed by Nicholas Ray | Film review - TimeOut
28 apr 2016 · A rip-snorting yarn packed with shootouts, punch-ups, daring escapes and crackling dialogue simply confirms its masterpiece status.
‘Never seen a woman who was more of a man. She thinks like one, acts like one, and sometimes makes me feel like I’m not.’ With lines like these, Nicholas Ray’s
13. JOHNNY GUITAR (1954) - Frame Rated
16 sep 2021 · Johnny Guitar is unlikely to leave you lacking an opinion, departing as it does so far from the norms of the western it initially looks like, ...
A review of Nicholas Ray's 1954 western Johnny Guitar, on Eureka 'Masters of Cinema' Blu-ray, starring Joan Crawford & Sterling Hayden.
14. JOHNNY GUITAR - Dennis Schwartz Reviews
Nicholas Ray's exotic psychological and neurotic Western, in which he covers his usual outsider theme but in a Western that doesn't feel like any other. It ...
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