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Release Date:
27 May 1954 (USA)
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Tagline:
Gun-Queen of the Arizona Frontier ! . . . and her kind of men !!!
Plot:
Vienna has built a saloon outside of town, and she hopes to build her own town once the railroad is put through...
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Saloon
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Stagecoach
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Guitar
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Cult Favorite
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Arizona
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Awards:
1 win
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(4 articles)
Topics/Questions/Exercises Of The Week—23 October 2009
(From The Auteurs. 23 October 2009, 10:03 AM, PDT)
...and they all lived linkily ever after
(From FilmExperience. 3 January 2009, 8:40 AM, PST)
(From The Auteurs. 23 October 2009, 10:03 AM, PDT)
...and they all lived linkily ever after
(From FilmExperience. 3 January 2009, 8:40 AM, PST)
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Color, Color, Everywhere!
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Joan Crawford | ... | Vienna |
 | Sterling Hayden | ... | Johnny 'Guitar' Logan |
| Mercedes McCambridge | ... | Emma Small |
| Scott Brady | ... | Dancin' Kid |
| Ward Bond | ... | John McIvers |
| Ben Cooper | ... | Turkey Ralston |
 | Ernest Borgnine | ... | Bart Lonergan |
| John Carradine | ... | Old Tom |
| Royal Dano | ... | Corey |
| Frank Ferguson | ... | Marshal Williams |
| Paul Fix | ... | Eddie |
 | Rhys Williams | ... | Mr. Andrews |
| Ian MacDonald | ... | Pete |
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Runtime:
110 min | West Germany:104 min (cut version)
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Color:
Color (Trucolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
Iceland:12 |
West Germany:12 (nf) (cut version) |
West Germany:16 (nf) (original rating) |
Norway:16 |
Australia:PG |
Argentina:16 |
Chile:18 |
Finland:K-16 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:PG |
USA:Approved (certificate #15815) |
Canada:PG
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Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge fought both on and off camera. One night, in a drunken rage, Crawford scattered the costumes worn by McCambridge along an Arizona highway. Cast and crew had to collect the outfits.
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Goofs:
Continuity: When Johnny has the shootout with Bart in front of the hill-top cabin, in the background we can see Vienna standing on the deck of the cabin, her body all the way to the timber railing. She is in sunlight. Then the view of her goes to a closeup, but now she is standing inside the door opening - in what is obviously a studio shot. This is probably connected to the fact that Joan Crawford insisted on her close-ups only being filmed in the studio, where the lighting could be rigidly controlled. No close-up of her was ever shot while on location.
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Quotes:
Dancin' Kid:
[Seeing, for the first time, Johnny Guitar wearing a gun, and not realizing who he really is] Well, look at Mr. Guitar! All dressed up and looking mighty dangerous.
Johnny: What did you want to tell me?
Dancin' Kid: [Mockingly, and completely unaware that Johnny Guitar is actually an extremely capable gunfighter] Oh, I'm too scared, now that you've gotta' gun.
Vienna: You better lay off him, Kid.
Dancin' Kid: I wouldn't hurt him.
Vienna: I wasn't thinking of *you* hurting *him.*
Dancin' Kid: Oh, you mean he might shoot himself in the leg, trying to draw?
[chuckles rudely]
Vienna: No... but if I were you, I wouldn't fool around with Johnny Logan.
Dancin' Kid: [Stunned] Are you... Johnny Logan?
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Johnny: What did you want to tell me?
Dancin' Kid: [Mockingly, and completely unaware that Johnny Guitar is actually an extremely capable gunfighter] Oh, I'm too scared, now that you've gotta' gun.
Vienna: You better lay off him, Kid.
Dancin' Kid: I wouldn't hurt him.
Vienna: I wasn't thinking of *you* hurting *him.*
Dancin' Kid: Oh, you mean he might shoot himself in the leg, trying to draw?
[chuckles rudely]
Vienna: No... but if I were you, I wouldn't fool around with Johnny Logan.
Dancin' Kid: [Stunned] Are you... Johnny Logan?
[...]
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in An Opera of Violence (2003) (V)
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Soundtrack:
Johnny Guitar
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This deservedly legendary western has to be seen to be believed. Directed by Nicholas Ray in blazing color, courtesy of Harry Stradling, Jr., it's western featuring the rivalry between two women, Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge, as they quarrel over two men, Sterling Hayden and Scott Brady, and shake things up in the Old West, Hollywood style, 1954. The film is for all practical purposes experimental. Ray is indulging himself in color, composition and space, nudging the viewer toward laughter at every twist and turn of its convoluted plot. As a purely visual exercise the film is a rousing success. Although Victor Young's music is nice, and the late Peggy Lee does a good job with the title tune, this one's better with the sound off. It is a movie to see, to experience, and very hard to discuss. Lord knows, I've tried. If you can make sense out of it, I'll buy you dinner. My best guess is that Ray was taking all the aspects of film that are traditionally ancillary and incidental, and putting them ahead of everything else. What I like most about Johnny Guitar is the way Joan Crawford's saloon is designed, the undergound cave, the waterfall, the cabin on top of the hill, the moments of intimacy and emotion as they occur in these places, and how the viewer is encouraged to suspend his disbelief of what the story is about and give into his emotions, as the characters give into theirs', and let the devil take the hindmost. Ray succeeded marvelously here, as there's nothing else quite like this one; and the movies in general as far as I'm concerned are still lagging behind it, by several decades.