General informations

Duration – 110  minutes.
Director – Nicholas Ray.
Release date – 1954

My comment

I was completely captivated by the story and the characters. It’s a classic cowboy movie with an authentic Wild West vibe, awesome cast, and a plot full of twists and turns. I loved following the adventures of Johnny Guitar and Vienna, who fight against outlaws to prove their innocence. The film is filled with action, suspense and a complex love story, which kept me hooked from start to finish. I highly recommend this movie to anyone who loves classic westerns or action movies in general. It is a true masterpiece of cinema and a classic of the genre that is worth watching.

My sum up

Johnny Guitar  is a 1954 cowboy film directed by Nicholas Ray. The story is set in the Wild West and follows the adventures of Johnny Guitar, a lonely guitarist who finds himself embroiled in a conflict between a group of outlaws. -the law and the owner of a saloon. The owner, Vienna, is falsely accused of having helped the outlaws in their last attack, and she must fight to prove her innocence. Johnny Guitar is ready to help him, but he must also face his own demons from the past. The film is filled with action, suspense and twists, with a complicated love story between Johnny Guitar and Vienna. It is a classic of the cowboy cinema, with strong characters and an authentic Wild West vibe.

Synopsis

An extraordinary, baroque and flamboyant Western, Johnny Guitare occupies a special place in the history of cinema, in particular because of the new and incredibly modern role he gives to women within an eminently masculine genre. Relegated to the background, the men shine with a soft and distant romantic glow, starting with the phlegmatic Johnny Guitare. The former shooter has swapped his weapon for the instrument that gives it its name and helps transport the film to another dimension, the unreal dimension of a love song. Made to measure for actress Joan Crawford, this masterpiece by Nicholas Ray brings to an unequaled point of incandescence the amorous and destructive passions that drive its two heroines Vienna and Emma. One, free and marginal, is hunted like a witch. The other, frustrated and thirsty for power, seems to sympathize with the devil. Each acts like a spell. Bewitched and captivating, the staging propels the film into a lyrical, poetic, magnetic beyond: an unleashed and melancholy world where colors imprint indelible emotions, where music freezes tears in an eternal, timeless movement.