Johnny Guitar - BLU-RAY

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.

Johnny Guitar stars Oscar winner Joan Crawford (Best Actress, Mildred Pierce) as Vienna, a saloon owner with a sordid past. Persecuted by the townspeople, Vienna must protect her life and property when a lynch mob led by her sexually repressed rival, Emma Small (Oscar winner Mercedes McCambridge, Best Acrtress, All the King's Men), attempts to frame her for a string of robberies she did not commit. An Olive InchSignatureInch feature.

In his first self-directed western effort, Clint Eastwood plays a stranger who rides into an impoverished town, whose residents are dreading the imminent return of the three desperadoes who had once laid the place to ruin. The locals turn to the imposing new arrival for help, but will his assistance come with too great a price? Violent and compelling opus co-stars Verna Bloom, Geoffrey Lewis, Billy Curtis. 105 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English; Subtitles English; audio commentary; interviews; poster gallery; image gallery; theatrical trailers; TV spot; radio spot; more.