The
Point of View Film Series at Tapp's Arts Center heads west Thursday November 14th for Nicholas Ray's
seminal, “Johnny Guitar” (1954).
A western unmatched in its
Freudian intensity and operatic emotion, it pops in lurid
technicolor. Joan Crawford stars as Vienna, a reclusive saloon owner
with a dark past. When her former lover, a mysterious gunslinger
named Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden), comes to town looking to
rekindle their passionate affair, it triggers a series of events
that pits the couple's desire to be left alone against that of the
town's lynch mob establishment headed by the firebrand, Emma Small
(Mercedes McCambridge). In a riveting tussle for power, Vienna and Emma
duel, woman-to-woman, in a climatic scene which is one of the genre's
finest. Unlike any film
then or since, Johnny Guitar is not your daddy's western and is an
offering you will not want to miss.
Johnny Guitar is the ninth screening in the P.O.V. Series which meets monthly in the Skyline Room of Tapp's Arts Center to
discuss films of varying eras, styles, and genres from around the
world.
Admission: $5
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