Review Of Johnny Guitar (1954)

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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