Review of Johnny Guitar (1954) by Manny C — 09 Sep 2012
If you crave high art and out there camp, Nicholas Ray's bizarre and marvelous Johnny Guitar is the film for you. Joan Crawford is all kinds of awesome as a gun-toting saloon owner under fire by a narrow-minded lynch mob led by a hard-ass Mercedes McCambridge.
Sterling Hayden plays the title character, but he takes a backseat to the pistol-packing ladies in this frontier town teeming with Freudian underpinnings. The color son screen pop, but the performances pop even more.
This review of Johnny Guitar (1954) was written by Manny C on 09 Sep 2012.
Johnny Guitar has generally received very positive reviews.
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