Johnny Guitar
NR

Johnny Guitar

Gun-Queen of the Arizona Frontier! And her kind of men!

1954 • 110 min • Western

Our family guide

Best from age 12
88
Movie Knight Score
486 reviews
  • 100 Reviewers · 3 · 53%
  • 74 Audience · 483 · 47%

Vienna, mmiliki mgumu wa baa, anakabiliana na mpinzani wake anaposhtakiwa kwa uwongo kwa uhalifu. Mpenzi wake wa zamani, Johnny Guitar, anarudi kusaidia, na kusababisha makabiliano makali na mapambano ya haki katika Old West.

Violence & peril
5/10
Language
2/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking
4/10
Romance & sensuality
2/10
Scary moments
3/10

Heads up

  • Mapigano ya risasi hutokea mara kwa mara
  • Wahusika wanavuta sigara na kunywa pombe kwenye baa
  • Mada za kulipiza kisasi na udhalimu

What it models well

  • Kutetea haki
  • Ujasiri mbele ya matatizo
  • Uaminifu

Talk about it after

  • Ubaguzi na mashtaka ya uwongo
  • Nafasi ya wanawake katika Old West
  • Matokeo ya ghasia za umati

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Top billed cast

Director: Nicholas Ray • Crew: Ben Maddow, Philip Yordan, Nicholas Ray

Trailers & clips

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Johnny Guitar - Trailer

Martin Scorsese introduces Johnny Guitar (USA, 1954) dir. Nicholas Ray

Reviewer notes

Recommended

“Vienna” (Joan Crawford) runs her bar on the outskirts of town earning the disdain of just about everyone else. When the stagecoach is robbed, a baying mob turn up accusing her of involvement. They haven’t a shred of evidence, but egged on by “Emma” (Mercedes McCambridge) whose brother had been killed, the sheriff (Frank Ferguson) and local kingpin “McIvers” (Ward Bond) are determined to take her in.…

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

_**A cult 50’s Western that’s colorful, melodramatic, surreal and mesmerizing**_ The railroad is coming soon to a town in northern Arizona where a tough saloon owner (Joan Crawford) faces off with a power-mad cattle baron (Mercedes McCambridge) over the Dancin’ Kid (Scott Brady) and more. Into this mix Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden) rides into town, a former love of the saloon proprietor.…

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

You're nothing but a railroad tramp who's not fit to live amongst decent people. Johnny Guitar is out of Republic Pictures and is directed by Nicholas Ray. It's written by Phillip Yordan, who adapts from a novel written by Roy Chanslor, and it stars Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Ward Bond, Ernest Borgnine & Scott Brady.…

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Details

TMDB audience
7.4/10 (483)
Age rating
NR
Status
Released

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