Johnny Guitar (1954) | |
| Director(s) | Nicholas Ray |
| Producer(s) | |
| Top Genres | Film Adaptation, Western |
| Top Topics | Book-Based, LBGT, Outlaws, Wild West |
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Johnny Guitar (1954) was a Western - Film Adaptation Film directed by Nicholas Ray .
Johnny Guitar was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2008.
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By The Metzinger Sisters on Sep 22, 2018 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film LoversJoan Crawford in a western? If that sounds incredulous, Ms.Crawford must have thought so, too, because it was not until 1954 that she starred in her first spurs-and-guns picture - Johnny Guitar. Unlike Barbara Stanwyck, Joan seemed out of place in the desert locale sporting jeans - but she gave it a... Read full article
Johnny Guitar (1954): Guilty Pleasure? Nah
By Carol Martinheira on Jun 3, 2018 From The Old Hollywood GardenJohnny Guitar (1954): Guilty Pleasure? Nah On June 3, 2018 By CarolIn Uncategorized Johnny Guitar (dir. Nicholas Ray), the Casablanca of westerns, is a psychological melodrama that often gets overlooked and unfairly dismissed. It’s not the greatest of westerns by... Read full article
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By 4 Star Film Fan on May 13, 2018 From 4 Star Films“I’m a stranger here myself.” ~ Sterling Hayden as Johnny Guitar In watching even only a handful of Nicholas Ray films, it’s possible to discern fairly quickly that his films?are?often about the marginalized outsiders. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)?is the most iconic example b... Read full article
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on Sep 13, 2017 From Journeys in Classic FilmThe 1950s is easily the decade where the Western thrived. Captured in expansive CinemaScope, the Wild West never looked wilder. But with so many cowpokes roaming the range it was only a matter of time before the range turned in on itself. The year before he took teen rebellion to the mainstream with... Read full article
Johnny Guitar (1954)
By Beatrice on Dec 31, 2015 From Flickers in TimeJohnny Guitar Directed by Nicholas Ray Written by Philip Yordan from a novel by Roy Chanslor 1954/USA Republic Pictures Repeat viewing/Netflix rental #292 of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die Nick Ray strays into Sam Fuller territory with this gaudy, off-kilter Technicolor Western. Vienna (... Read full article
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Vienna: [Calmly sitting and playing the piano] That's what you said yesterday.
Marshal Williams: We came for you too, Vienna.
Vienna: [Still playing the piano, unperturbed] Why? I had nothing to do with robbing the bank. Every man here knows that. I don't have to hold up banks. All I have to do is sit here and wait for the railroad to come through. And that is my intention.
Johnny: [starting a song] Her name was Emma Smalls, Emma Smalls.
Vienna: [Referring to her long-ago love for Johnny Guitar] When a fire burns itself out, all you have left is ashes.
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Joan Crawford, who had bought the rights to the novel, selling it to Republic Pictures with the provision that she would star, initially wanted Claire Trevor to play the part of Emma and was jealous of the younger, competitive Mercedes McCambridge.
At one point in the movie Johnny says, "I'm a stranger here myself." This was Nicholas Ray's own personal motto, a recurring theme in his movies, and reportedly the working title for just about every movie he directed.
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