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Johnny Guitar

Johnny Guitar

DVD 2012

This one-of-a-kind western stars Joan Crawford as a saloon owner battling the local townspeople headed by Emma, 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 Ray's epic western is considered on the most original west...

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Description:
1 videodisc (ca. 110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Target Audience Note:
CHVR: PG
Notes:
Title from container
Originally released as a motion picture in 1954
Based on a novel by Roy Chanslor
Special features: introduction by Martin Scorsese (1995)
Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady, Ward Bond, Ben Cooper, Ernest Borgnine, John Carradine
DVD
For private home use only
Control Number:
890381
UPC:
887090044707
Other Authors:
Bond, Ward, 1903-1960
Brady, Scott, 1924-1985
Crawford, Joan, 1908-1977
Hayden, Sterling, 1916-1986
McCambridge, Mercedes
Melange Pictures (Firm)
Olive Films
Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)
Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927)
Ray, Nicholas, 1911-1979
Republic Pictures Corporation
Yates, Herbert J., 1880-1966
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