Mercedes McCambridge
Pub. Date
p2012
Description
Johnny Guitar is one of the most unusual Westerns ever filmed. The "good guys" wear black, gender roles are reversed and a sexual tension underscores many of the scenes. When the railroad finally comes to a frontier boomtown, so does trouble. Enterprising businesswoman Joan Crawford not only controls the nearby profitable gambling, she's been buying up enough property to make her the most powerful person in town. The timely arrival of Sterling Hayden...
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Saloon owner Vienna battles the local townspeople headed by Emma, the local sexually repressed, lynch-happy female rancher out to frame her for a string of robberies. Johnny Logan is a guitar-strumming drifter with a dark past who was once in love with Vienna and has been offered a job in her saloon. Nicholas Ray's epic western is considered one of the most original westerns of all time. The women are far tougher than the men and some saw a bizarre...
7) Cimarron
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
April 22, 1889. Tens of thousands of hopeful homesteaders are poised at the Oklahoma border, waiting for the gunshots that will send them on a feverish dash to claim a share of two million acres free for the taking.
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