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Release Date: 1954

Cast: Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Royal Dano, Scott Brady, Joan Crawford

Categories: Movies, Revisionist Western, Western

Johnny Guitar is a 1954 Republic Pictures Western film Drama film starring Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, and Scott Brady. The screenplay was based upon a novel by Roy Chanslor. Though credited to Philip Yordan, he was merely a front for the actual screenwriter, blacklistee Ben Maddow. The film was directed by Nicholas Ray and produced by Herbert J. Yates. This was the last feature film produced by Republic Pictures in its Trucolor process. The film has been broadcast on American television, released in VHS and DVD formats, and adapted to musical theater. In 2008,... MORE

Johnny Guitar is a 1954 Republic Pictures Western film Drama film starring Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, and Scott Brady. The screenplay was based upon a novel by Roy Chanslor. Though credited to Philip Yordan, he was merely a front for the actual screenwriter, blacklistee Ben Maddow. The film was directed by Nicholas Ray and produced by Herbert J. Yates. This was the last feature film produced by Republic Pictures in its Trucolor process. The film has been broadcast on American television, released in VHS and DVD formats, and adapted to musical theater. In 2008, Johnny Guitar was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". On the outskirts of a wind-swept Arizona cattle town, an aggressive and strong-willed saloonkeeper named Vienna maintains a volatile relationship with the local cattlemen and townsfolk. Not only does she support the railroad being laid nearby (the cattlemen oppose it), but she permits a suspected stage robber called The Dancin' Kid to share her bed, and his confederates to frequent her saloon. Vienna's ex-lover Johnny LESS