Ernest Borgnine, Joan Crawford, Johnny Watson
Strong-willed saloon-casino owner Vienna squares off against her nemesis, the shrieking Emma Small, who wrongly blames Vienna for her brother's death.
DVD Release Date: September 16, 2008
Stats: 176 reviews
Johnny Guitar is a decent western that even with the presence of horses, guns and cowboys didn't feel like a western. Nicholas Ray's direction is decent enough and it started off great, but about an hour in it just kind of went dead behind the eyes. I understand Joan Crawford and...( read more)
campy and highly melodramatic but very entertaining. strong parallels to the mccarthy hearings. and there can't be too many westerns of this era with a shootout between two women! i couldn't help seeing stanwyck in joan's part but the ott performances are a big part of the fun :)
Pretty entertaining and atypical western with some very over the top acting and surface level cool dialogue. It's basically a feminist western where the two strongest characters are women. The color photography was very soothing on the eyes. Mercedes McCambridge plays the most an...( read more)
More than just the camp classic it's held up to be. A truly great and under-valued master-piece. A great western that touches on feminism, masculinity, gender, sexuality, lynch-mob mentality and is still supreme entertainment.
The big climactic stand off with McCambridge and Cra...( read more)
one of the best movies i have seen and in my opinion the best performances i have seen by almost all of the actors.what A MOVIE!!!!!!!!!and the music was wonderful.i loved the song and the voice of peggy lee
Johnny decides that the last name "Guitar" is way cooler than his real last name. Much if not all of the audience disagrees. Joan Crawford wears pants, a direct challenge to Katherine Hepburn's manhood (she's not in this film, the whole pants thing was merely a byproduct of par...( read more)
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