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Johnny Guitar
Uniform Title
Johnny Guitar (Motion picture)
Title
Johnny Guitar / a Republic production ; Herbert J. Yates presents ; screen play by Philip Yordan ; directed by Nicholas Ray.
Publication
[Chicago, Illinois] : Olive Films ; [Hollywood, California] : Paramount Home Entertainment, [2012]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Medium
4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.
Based on the novel by Roy Chanslor.
Special feature: Introduction by Martin Scorsese (1995).
Music, Victor Young ; song "Johnny Guitar" by Peggy Lee and Victor Young, sung by Peggy Lee ; director of photography, Harry Stradling ; art director, James Sullivan ; costumes designed by Sheila O'Brien ; set decorations, John McCarthy, Jr., Edward G. Boyle ; film editor, Richard L. Van Enger.
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. Nicholas Ray's epic western is considered one of the most original westerns of all time. The women are far tougher than the men and some saw a bizarre allegory for the McCarthy era Red Scare.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 07, 2018
Credits
Music, Victor Young ; song "Johnny Guitar" by Peggy Lee and Victor Young, sung by Peggy Lee ; director of photography, Harry Stradling ; art director, James Sullivan ; costumes designed by Sheila O'Brien ; set decorations, John McCarthy, Jr., Edward G. Boyle ; film editor, Richard L. Van Enger.
Cast
Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady, Ward Bond, Ben Cooper, Ernest Borgnine, John Carradine, Royal Dano, Frank Ferguson, Paul Fix, Rhys Williams, Ian MacDonald.
System details note
DVD, NTSC, region 1.
Audience
Rating: Not rated.
Videorecording number
OF447 Olive Films
Subjects
Genre/Form
Western films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Drama.
History.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Western films.
Also listed under
Republic Pictures Corporation, production company.
Olive Films, film distributor.
Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm), film distributor.
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