Johnny Guitar

“Johnny Guitar is surely one of the most blatant psychosexual melodramas ever to disguise itself in that most commodious of genres, the Western.”—Roger Ebert

Don’t miss this vivid restoration of Nicholas Ray’s genre-bending western. Johnny Guitar pits strong-willed saloonkeeper Vienna (Joan Crawford) and her former lover (Sterling Hayden as the titular gunslinger) in a showdown with town fury Emma (Mercedes McCambridge) and her fellow locals, who will stop at nothing to drive her out. Shot in three-strip Trucolor, the film features remarkable and subversive performances by Crawford and McCambridge, who were rivals onscreen and off. (110 mins., 2K DCP)

Restored and released by Paramount Pictures.