JOHNNY GUITAR

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• Release Year: 1954
• Genre: Western
• Plot: This one-of-a-kind western features Joan Crawford as a saloon owner battling the local townspeople headed by Emma (Mercedes McCambridge), the local sexually repressed, lynch-happy female rancher out to frame her for a string of robberies. The title character played by Sterling Hayden is a guitar-strumming drifter with a dark past who was once in love with Crawfod and has been offered a job in her saloon. Nicholas Rays' epic western is considered one of the most original westerns of all time -- the women are tougher than the men and some saw in the film a bizarre allegory for the McCarthy-era Red Scare. In addition to the stars, JOHNNY GUITAR is well stocked with great supporting players, including Ernest Borgnine, Ward Bond, Paul Fix, Royal Dano and John Carradine. Classic score title song written by Peggy Lee and the film's composer Victor Young and sung by Peggy Lee.
• Cast: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady, Ward Bond, Ben Cooper, Ernest Borgnine, John Carradine, Royal Dano, Frank Ferguson, Paul Fix, Rhys Williams, Ian MacDonald, India Adams, Trevor Bardette, George Bell, Bob Burrows, Curley Gibson, Chick Hannan, Clem Harvey, Frank Marlowe, John Maxwell, Jack Montgomery, Sheilk O'Brien, Robert Osterloh, Denver Pyle, Rocky Shahan, Dean Williams, Sumner Williams, Sheb Wooley, Will Wright, Nicholas Ray, Philip Yordan, Roy Chanslor
• Director: Nicholas Ray
• Runtime: 1:50
• Company: Paramount Pictures, Olive Films
• Media Format: Movie