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DVD ~ Joan Crawford
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  • Actors: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady, Ward Bond
  • Directors: Nicholas Ray
  • Writers: Nicholas Ray, Ben Maddow, Philip Yordan, Roy Chanslor
  • Format: Full Screen, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Universal Pictures UK
  • DVD Release Date: 18 Sep 2006
  • Run Time: 105 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0007Q6RIG
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 8,446 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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"I've never seen a woman who was more like a man," a character observes of Vienna (Joan Crawford), who has just opened a saloon that hasn't exactly endeared itself to the local townspeople. Emma (Mercedes McCambridge), the local sexually repressed, lynch-happy harpy, is particularly displeased. Vienna is wooed both by the Dancin' Kid (Scott Brady) and by Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden), a peripatetic tough guy-turned-troubadour with whom she has a past.

When the Kid's gang (which includes Ernest Borgnine) decides to knock over the bank before heading to California, Emma wants just about everyone in sight on the business end of a rope. Nicolas Ray's 1954 epic was considered one of the downright strangest Westerns of all time--the women were far tougher than the men (Johnny watches on laconically during the bank robbery, not bothering with heroics), and some saw in the film a bizarre allegory for the McCarthy Red scare. A half-century later, it's still a curious, intriguing piece of moral ambiguity from a time when such a thing ostensibly didn't exist. Hayden is an enigmatic presence, and Crawford's commanding star turn is what you'd expect. --David Kronke

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An offbeat western about a saloon-keeper who learns that her wealth and power can't buy everything.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Unique and Perverse, 9 April 2006
By Adam Lampe (Darwin, Northern Territory Australia) - See all my reviews
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If Charlotte Bronte had written a Western, she might have turned out something like this lunatic wallow in repressed female sexuality. God knows what the original novel (by Ray Chanslor) is like, but the director lays on the Freudian imagery with a trowel: my favourite is Crawford's blood-red shirt into which she insanely changes while on the run from a lynch-mob. Of the men, only the squalid and asexual Ernest Borgnine has substance; the rest look bemused or mildly disgusted by proceedings. Mercedes McCambridge is a screeching harpy, a force of nature, mesmerising in her intensity. Crawford looks like she's come west as an escapee from the House of Usher. In her caked-on, clown-like make-up that defined her later period, she's a hideous and unforgettable matriarch.

The DVD transfer is superb. There's an enthusiatic introduction by Martin Scorsese, but no other extras. A full-blown psycho-analytic reading as a commentary might have been fun.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A mesmerizing western, 18 April 2006
By Miguel M. Santos "miguelmsantos" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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Certainly one of the most unusual westerns ever made, "Johnny Guitar" is a fascinating and mesmerizing film. Women take the central role, while men play second fiddle to them. It has a unique atmosphere of garish, fake colours and location settings. It is surely one of those films no one should ever miss. Brilliantly acted by Joan Crawford (my favourite performance of hers) and Mercedes McCambridge, playing respectively a saloon owner with an eye in the future and her fierce opponent.

The DVD looks gorgeous, with the film's fantastic range of colours highlighted by the print. As for extras there's only an introduction to the film by Martin Scorcese. It would be nice if there was something meatier. I strongly recommend it.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Brilliant Powder Keg of a Film, 28 Feb 2009
By Bob Salter "Sandman" (Wiltshire, England) - See all my reviews
Nicholas Ray was a mercurial and brilliant director. He was bisexual and had affairs with such stars as Marilyn Monroe and Joan Crawford, the star of this film. He was a heavy drinker, a gambler and a drug addict. In short he lived that hedonistic lifestyle so beloved of many Hollywood luminaries. Joan Crawford had a well documented film career. She was notorious for her many lovers and if you believed half of the biography "Mommie Dearest", she was a cruel, abusing, alcoholic Mother to her adopted children. Mercedes McCambridge led a tragic life. She also suffered from alcoholism and her only son tragically shot himself after murdering his wife and children. Sterling Hayden was a colourful character who sailed around the world several times in between acting. His career was blighted due to his activities during the McCarthy years.
So what sort of film would you get if you mixed this powder keg of characters together in a Western. Something volatile? Something unusual? You betcha!

"Johnny Guitar" made in 1954, and not 1963 as advertised is all of those things and more. The story concerns a saloon owner Vienna played by the wide eyed Crawford, who supports the building of a railway and allows a local outlaw "the Dancin Kid" and his gang the use of her facilities. All of which are angrily opposed by the local population. An old lover "Johnny Guitar" an ex gunslinger, who now only carries his guitar returns to try and reignite the romance. The fuse is lit when the gang rob a bank and the locals feel Vienna is implicated. A posse led by Emma Small a local rancher played by McCambridge hunt the gang to their lair.
Emma has always harboured a deep and festering hatred of Vienna. We head towards one of the most unusual gunfights in history between the two female protaganists.

This has to be the strangest and perhaps one of the better Westerns ever made. It was a rare foray into the Western genre for Ray. Unusually the two main protaganists are women and they are more than a match for the men. Nothing unusual in that assertion I guess! Mercedes McCambridge positively oozes jealousy and hate from every pore. Crawford gives a magnificently detached performance as the world weary Vienna. Johnny Guitar mocks the archetypal Western hero with his pacifism. Colour is used to startling effect. The support cast is quite brilliant with Ernest Borgnine, Ward Bond and John Carradine amongst many.

The film is an outlandish off beat gem that throws away the rule book. In 2008 it was selected for preservation in the United States Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". It is a film well worthy of this accolade. Highly recommended.
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