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Johnny Guitar [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Nicholas Ray.

Alliance Entertainment Corporation, 2012.

[videorecording (DVD)] /

1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Based on a novel by Roy Chanslor.

A selection of the National Film Registry, 2008.

"This one-of-a-kind western stars Joan Crawford as a saloon owner battling the local townspeople headed by Emma (Mercedes McCambridge), the local sexually repressed, lynch-happy female rancher out to frame her for a string of robberies. The title character played by Sterling Hayden is a guitar-strumming drifter with a dark past who was once in love with Crawford and has been offered a job in her saloon. Nicholas Rays epic western is considered on the most original westerns of all time the women are far tougher than the men and some saw in the film a bizarre allegory for the McCarthy era Red Scare. In addition to the stars, Johnny Guitar is well stocked with great supporting players, including Ernest Borgnine, Scott Brady, Ward Bond, Paul Fix, Royal Dano and John Carradine. Classic score title song written by Peggy Lee and the films composer Victor Young and sung by Peggy Lee."--Container.

Feminist films.

Crawford, Joan, 1908-1977.

Hayden, Sterling, 1916-1986.

Brady, Scott, 1924-1985.

McCambridge, Mercedes.

Borgnine, Ernest, 1917-2012.

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