One of the strangest and most crazily original of the great American Westerns, Nicholas Ray’s 1954 “Johnny Guitar” was intended as both a star vehicle for Joan Crawford and a disguised parable of the ...

Saloon owner Vienna buys land in a small desert town to support the railway industry, earning the enmity of her neighbour Emma. Emma's schemes put Vienna on the gallows, and now only former gunslinger ...

Perhaps the biggest surprise about “Johnny Guitar, the Musical” isn’t how good it is, but that no one came up with the idea a lot sooner. Nicholas Ray’s 1954 film “Johnny Guitar,” a ...

A “golden age” Hollywood Western, Johnny Guitar presents a familiar tableau: two gunfighters in love with the same woman, a land baron and his posse drooling for a hanging, and a bandit gang caught ...

The Western is the prime political genre, and Nicholas Ray’s “Johnny Guitar,” from 1954, is one of the greatest Westerns, but its political ideas are hardly the source of its enduring—and ...

Johnny Guitar actor Ben Cooper has passed away at the age of 86. The star succumbed to a long illness in Memphis, Tennessee, on Monday, his nephew Pete Searls told The Hollywood Reporter. Cooper ...

“Was I dreaming or did I just see a bank held up?” asks Sterling Hayden during Nicholas Ray‘s sole Republic Studios directorial outing, “Johnny Guitar.” The 1954 film, which arrives on blu-ray Tuesday ...

Based on the 1954 Joan Crawford/Mercedes McCambridge film of the same name, Johnny Guitar is set in a small town in the New Mexico mountains circa 1885. The story centers of Vienna, a sultry ...

Ben Cooper, a Western star of films and TV like “Johnny Guitar,” “Bonanza,” “Rawhide” and more, died in his sleep on Monday according to his nephew on the actor’s Facebook fan page. He was 86. Cooper ...