Rent Johnny Guitar (1954)
3.8 of 5 from 107 ratings
1h 45min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Joan Crawford plays Vienna, a saloon owner with a sordid past. Persecuted by the townspeople, Vienna must protect her life and her property when a lynch mob led by her sexually repressed rival, Emma Small (Mercedes McCambridge), attempts to frame her for a string of robberies she did not commit. Enter Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden), a guitar-strumming ex-gunfighter who has a history with Vienna.
- Actors:
- 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, Trevor Bardette, George Bell, Bob Burrows, Curley Gibson, Chick Hannan, Clem Harvey, Frank Marlowe
- Directors:
- Nicholas Ray
- Producers:
- Nicholas Ray
- Writers:
- Philip Yordan, Roy Chanslor, Ben Maddow
- Studio:
- Universal Pictures
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics
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- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 20/09/2021
- Run Time:
- 110 minutes
- Languages:
- English
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.66:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Brand new audio commentary by film scholar Adrian Martin
- Geoff Andrew on Johnny Guitar - Brand new interview with critic Geoff Andrew, author of The Films of Nicholas Ray: The Poet of Nightfall
- Tony Rayns on Johnny Guitar - Brand new interview with film writer Tony Rayns
- Never is a Long Time - A new video essay by filmmaker David Cairns
- Stranger - Brand new interview with Susan Ray
- Archival introduction to Johnny Guitar by director Martin Scorsese
- Original Theatrical Trailer
