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Sep 14, 2016 - 7:07 PM
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johnjohnson
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U.S. label Olive Films has notified us that the upcoming Signature Edition of dierctor Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar (1954) currently has a special discount price at online vendor Amazon. The official street date for the upcoming release is September 20.
The current sale price for Johnny Guitar is $16.99.
Also on the same date, the label will introduce a brand new release of director Fred Zinnemann's western High Noon (1952). The two releases are part of the recently announced Olive Signature line.
Johnny Guitar
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 Actress, All the King's Men), attempts to frame her for a string of robberies she did not commit. Enter Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb), a guitar-strumming ex-gunfighter, who once was —and perhaps still is—in love with Vienna. With the leads at their operatic best, the table is now set for an epic showdown in this one-of-a-kind western from director Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a Cause).
A bizarrely veiled allegory for the McCarthy-era Red Scare, Johnny Guitar was misunderstood upon its initial release. One of the most original takes on the western genre — the women are far tougher than the men —Johnny Guitar is praised by fans, filmmakers, and critics alike as groundbreaking.
Boasting superb supporting performances, Johnny Guitar features Ernest Borgnine (Marty), Scott Brady (The China Syndrome), Ward Bond (The Searchers), Paul Fix (To Kill a Mockingbird),Royal Dano (The Outlaw Josey Wales) and John Carradine (Stagecoach). Notably, Johnny Guitar's indelible title song was a collaboration between the Academy Award-winning composer Victor Young (Around the World in Eighty Days), and co-writer and songstress Peggy Lee.
Special Features and Specs:
NEW 4K restoration
Optional English SDH subtitles
Video Introduction by acclaimed director Martin Scorsese
Audio commentary with historian and critic Geoff Andrew
"Tell Us She Was One of You: The Blacklist History of Johnny Guitar" - with historian Larry Ceplair and blacklisted screenwriter Walter Bernstein
"Is Johnny Guitar a Feminist Western?: Questioning the Canon" - with critics Miriam Bale, Kent Jones, Joe McElhaney andB. Ruby Rich
"Free Republic: The Story of Herb Yates and Republic studios" - with archivist Marc Wanamaker
A critical appreciation of Nicholas Ray with critics Miriam Bale, Kent Jones, Joe McElhaney and B. Ruby Rich
"My Friend, the American Friend" - Nicholas Ray biographical piece with Tom Farrell
"Johnny Guitar: The First Existential Western" - an original essay by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum
Theatrical trailer
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 20.
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=19839
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Johnny Guitar is one of the most entertaining films (western or otherwise) that I've ever seen! Featuring some unintentional hoots, and totally over-the-top acting, I have always loved watching this one.
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Sep 15, 2016 - 1:54 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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Joan Crawford bought the film rights to the 1953 novel Johnny Guitar, and sold them to Republic with the provision that she would star in the picture. Crawford, in her first Western since M-G-M's 1930 release MODERN MOON, wanted Claire Trevor to play the part of “Emma” and was jealous of the younger, competitive Mercedes McCambridge. Newspapers played up the rivalry, and Nicholas Ray used the women's mutual antagonism to spark their performances.
The crew broke into spontaneous applause after one of McCambridge's powerhouse scenes, which infuriated Crawford. According to Nicholas Ray, he then began shooting the younger actress' scenes in the early morning before Crawford got there. After the star witnessed one of these early shoots, she flew into a rage, broke into McCambridge's dressing room and slashed her clothes to shreds. McCambridge blamed her next two years of inactivity on Crawford's repeated attempts to blacklist her.
Crawford insisted on her close-ups only being filmed in the studio, where the lighting could be rigidly controlled. No close-up of her was ever shot while on location. Sterling Hayden later said: "There is not enough money in Hollywood to lure me into making another picture with Joan Crawford. And I like money."
Although Nicholas Ray served as both producer and director of the film, he is credited onscreen only as director. Ray felt he should have been credited as full producer, as he considered Republic’s standard associate producer billing an “office boy equivalent.” When Republic refused to budge from its crediting policy, Ray insisted that his billing as producer be completely dropped.
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