Johnny Guitar (Olive Signature) (Blu-ray)
Gun-Queen of the Arizona Frontier! And her kind of men!
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Johnny Guitar
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Blu-ray Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 20, 2016
- Originally Released: 1954
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden & Mercedes McCambridge | |
| Performer: | Ernest Borgnine, Scott Brady, Ben Cooper, Ward Bond & John Carradine | |
| Directed by | Nicholas Ray | |
| Edited by | Richard L. Van Enger | |
| Screenwriting by | Philip Yordan | |
| Composition by | Victor Young | |
| Produced by | Herbert J. Yates | |
| Director of Photography: | Harry Stradling Sr. |
Entertainment Reviews:
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The acidulous palette of the costumes and the décor conjure Ray's insolent, isolated fury; though the action is set in the nineteenth century, the actors break out of the story to foreshadow the stylishly electric revolutions to come.
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New Yorker
Rating: 5/5 --
Unforgettably strange and brilliant.
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Guardian
Rating: B+ --
Compared to other Westerns, Johnny Guitar is high art--richly atmospheric and with noir elements that will remind viewers of such dramatic films as Key Largo.
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Family Home Theater
The strangest western ever made in Hollywood, a screaming opera of Freudian signs, a camp genre nova of colour-codings, and epic battle for gender supremacy played out in a dream landscape of cowboys and outlaws and sexually maddened frontier women...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 5/5 --
It's not just Joan's campiness -- her line readings take on an almost incantatory quality -- but the way the whole thing feels like a stealth therapy session for smart actors trapped in horse-opera stereotypes.
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Time Out
A slyly radical psychosexual oddity busting through genre conventions, beyond its Old West Arizona setting ...
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Village Voice
While I won't say that I loved the film (it retains enough of its genre's tropes to not quite work for me), I was surprised by how glorious the sets and landscapes looked.
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Desist Film
Product Description:
An off-kilter but intriguingly sensational western about a lady saloon-keeper who learns her wealth and power can't buy everything as a town full of jealous monsters try to overrun her property. Women wear the pants (and guns) in this pre-feminist exercise in gender neutrality.
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