Johnny Guitar

Johnny Guitare ( Johnny Guitar ) is an American film carried out by Nicholas Ray, left the May 27th 1954.

Synopsis

This film, considered by much as one of most beautiful of the American cinema, is a astonishing Western insofar as it is one of the rare ones - even only - feminist westerns. They are two women who are the protagonists. The blonde Emma, rich owner of the village, is jealous of brown Vienna, tenancière of a saloon, the beautiful foreign one, beautiful adventurous, proud and independent one, which has just found Johnny Guitar, her lover. Passions of the western - competition, hatred, are incarnated here by these two women, until the usual duel with the revolver which they will deliver. Of course, the good will carry it. Sterling Hayden incarnates the ideal man for independent woman: extremely and to tend, it does not protect its beloved, lets it live her life and run the risks of its independence, but is, quite simply, at its sides.

Surprising coincidences

This western is turned during the activity of the commission McCarthy. Nicholas Ray was suspected of sympathy to the Communists but Howard Hughes its producer effectively protected it from the investigations in progress. The scenario even of film puts in presence two women of which one does not balk to handle the lyncheurs to advance his own cause.

Of aucuns see in this history, the transposition in what there is of American like subject, of hunting for the witches. If the distribution is looked at, Sterling Hayden (Johnny Guitar) passed before the commission where it has " craqué" and recognized activities which one would describe today as ridiculous. Ward Jump, the chief of the lyncheurs was him member of " Motion Picture Alliance for the Safeguarding off American Ideals" , and had taken an active part in the same hunting for the witches. That had surprised much people that Nicholas Ray makes it turn taking into account the little of values which they shared.

This film would be liked during On the quays of Elia Kazan which made him to it apology for the denouncers.

Data sheet

  • Title: Johnny Guitar

  • original Title: Johnny Guitar
  • Realization: Nicholas Ray
  • Scenario: Philip Yordan, according to the novel of Roy Chanslor
  • Production: Nicholas Ray
  • Production company: Republic
  • Music: Victor Young
  • Photography: Harry Stradling
  • Assembly: R.L. Van Enger
  • Country of origin: the United States
  • Format: Colors (Trucolor) - Mono
  • Kind: Western
  • Lasted: 110 minutes
  • Coming out date: May 27th 1954

Distribution

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Around film

  • Jean-Luc Godard pays homage to film of Ray at the beginning of Pierrot insane the. Answering its wife who asked him where were the children, the character of Jean-Paul Belmondo counterpart: " They pass Johnny Guitare in bottom, it is necessary well that they are informed! " .
  • In the siren of the Mississippi of François Truffaut, the characters of Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo will see Johnny Guitare with the cinema.
  • At the beginning of Femmes at the edge of the attack of nerves of Pedro Almodóvar one attends Spanish doubling of a sequence of Johnny Guitare.

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