Johnny Guitar

Author

Nicholas Ray

Call Number

• BLU-RAY ACTION (CEN)

Edition

Blu-ray version.

Languages

In English, with optional English subtitles.

Performers

Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady, Ward Bond, Ben Cooper, Ernest Borgnine, John Carradine.

Publication Information

[Chicago, IL] : Olive Films, [2016]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (110 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (7 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 15 cm)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Saloon owner Vienna battles the local townspeople headed by Emma, the local sexually-repressed, lynch-happy female rancher out to frame her for a string of robberies. Johnny Logan is a guitar-strumming drifter with a dark past who was once in love with Vienna and has been offered a job in her saloon.

Notes

Based on a novel by Roy Chanslor.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.

Special features: Mastered from new 4K restoration ; introduction by Martin Scorsese ; audio commentary with critic Geoff Andrew ; Johnny Guitar: a Western like no other, with critics Miriam Bale, Kent Jones, Joe McElhaney and B. Ruby Rich ; Johnny Guitar: a feminist Western?, with critics Miriam Bale, Kent Jones, Joe McElhaney and B. Ruby Rich ; Tell us she was one of you: the Hollywood Blacklist and Johnny Guitar, with historian Larry Ceplair and blacklisted screenwriter Walter Bernstein ; Free Republic: Herbert J. Yates and the story of Republic Pictures, with archivist Marc Wanamaker ; My friend, the American friend, memories of Nicholas Ray with Tom Farrell and Chris Sievernich ; theatrical trailer.