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EAN-13 | 9786303391939 ![]() |
Product Name | Johnny Guitar [VHS] |
Category | Electronics / Photography: A/V Media: Movie / TV |
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SKU | 3241306 |
Price New | 5.98 US Dollars (curriencies) |
Price Used | 3.98 US Dollars (curriencies) |
Cast | Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady, Ward Bond |
Binding | VHS Tape |
Format | Color, Special Edition, NTSC |
Run Time | 110 minutes |
Long Description | "I've never seen a woman who was more like a man," a character observes of Vienna (Joan Crawford), who has just opened a saloon that hasn't exactly endeared itself to the local townspeople. Emma (Mercedes McCambridge), the local sexually repressed, lynch-happy harpy, is particularly displeased. Vienna is wooed both by the Dancin' Kid (Scott Brady) and by Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden), a peripatetic tough guy-turned-troubadour with whom she has a past. When the Kid's gang (which includes Ernest Borgnine) decides to knock over the bank before heading to California, Emma wants just about everyone in sight on the business end of a rope. Nicolas Ray's 1954 epic was considered one of the downright strangest Westerns of all time--the women were far tougher than the men (Johnny watches on laconically during the bank robbery, not bothering with heroics), and some saw in the film a bizarre allegory for the McCarthy Red scare. A half-century later, it's still a curious, intriguing piece of moral ambiguity from a time when such a thing ostensibly didn't exist. Hayden is an enigmatic presence, and Crawford's commanding star turn is what you'd expect. --David Kronke |
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Modified | 05-01-2020 9:13:46pm |
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SHA256 | ae19fb76cf888af7d5d4c37e0414f47729fe992db428069f93eda3afa4c8f5a8 |
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