Johnny Guitar

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.

Director: Nicholas Ray
Producer: Herbert J. Yates
Actor: Joan Crawford
Actor: Sterling Hayden
Actor: Mercedes McCambridge
Actor: Scott Brady
Actor: Ward Bond
Actor: Ben Cooper
Actor: Ernest Borgnine
Actor: Royal Dano
Actor: Paul Fix
Actor: John Carradine
Actor: Frank Ferguson
Actor: Rhys Williams
Actor: Ian MacDonald
Actor: Will Wright
Actor: John Maxwell
Actor: Robert Osterloh
Actor: Frank Marlowe
Actor: Trevor Bardette
Actor: Sumner Williams
Actor: Sheb Wooley
Actor: Denver Pyle
Actor: Clem Harvey