Johnny Guitar (1954)

[Scott]

JOHNNY GUITAR (1954) is a neat western starring Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, and Ernest Borgnine. Another pivitol Western film and you can see that the Italian Westerns took some elements from this one. I found a good copy at Hollywood Video that was introduced by Martin Scorsese as a classic and this copy also had the original trailer. A must see for Western fans.

[BoyScoutKevin]

Also with Mercedes McCambridge, Ward Bond, John Carradine, Scot Brady, and Royal Dano I might add.

Worth seeing, if only because it turns most of the western cliches on ther head. Instead of two men fighting over a woman, you have two women--Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge--fighting over a man, Scot Brady. And instead of a climatic gunfight between two men, you have a climatic gunfight between two women, the aforesaid Crawford and McCambridge.

And, Borgnine has been a hero so long, one forgets how good he could be as the villain, as he is in this film. I loved it, when he said: "I hate consumptives," as he stabbed consumptive Royal Dano in the back.

An enjoyable western.