Johnny Guitar

An off-kilter but intriguingly sensational western about a saloon madam, Vienna (Joan Crawford), who learns that her wealth and power can’t buy everything as a town full of jealous landowners tries to overrun her property. The eponymous male (Sterling Hayden) of director Nicholas Ray’s western gender- and genre-bender is the film’s object of desire – a trophy cowboy returned, feuded over by the two women who wear the pants in this wild west town, Crawford and the sexually frustrated rancher Emma McCall (Mercedes McCambridge). Ray's 1954 masterpiece is one of the all-time left-field wonders of the studio system, a film so subversive it's a wonder it ever got made. Relentlessly feminist, JOHNNY GUITAR examines the costs of a woman’s independent action through lurid, violent exaggeration. A pop culture madhouse dressed up in spurs and a cowboy hat. 4k DCP courtesy of Paramount Pictures

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An off-kilter but intriguingly sensational western about a saloon madam, Vienna (Joan Crawford), who learns that her wealth and power can’t buy everything as a town full of jealous landowners tries to overrun her property. The eponymous male (Sterling Hayden) of director Nicholas Ray’s western gender- and genre-bender is the film’s object of desire – a trophy cowboy returned, feuded over by the two women who wear the pants in this wild west town, Crawford and the sexually frustrated rancher Emma McCall (Mercedes McCambridge). Ray's 1954 masterpiece is one of the all-time left-field wonders of the studio system, a film so subversive it's a wonder it ever got made. Relentlessly feminist, JOHNNY GUITAR examines the costs of a woman’s independen