Johnny Guitar (1954)
Director:
Nicholas Ray
Tagline:
« Gun-Queen of the Arizona Frontier ! . . . and her kind of men !!! »
Actors:
Vienna
Johnny ‘Guitar’ Logan
Emma Small
Dancin’ Kid
John McIvers
Rating:
(21’713 votes)
(21’713 votes)
Quotes:
« Vienna: [Spoken to Johnny Guitar, with a certain scornful bitterness] A man can lie, steal… and even kill. But as long as he hangs on to his pride, he's still a man. All a woman has to do is slip – once. And she's a "tramp!" Must be a great comfort to you to be a man.
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« Johnny: How many men have you forgotten?
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« Vienna: As many women as you've remembered.
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« Johnny: Don't go away.
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« Vienna: I haven't moved.
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« Johnny: Tell me something nice.
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« Vienna: Sure, what do you want to hear?
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« Johnny: Lie to me. Tell me all these years you've waited. Tell me.
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« Vienna: [without feeling] All those years I've waited.
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« Johnny: Tell me you'd a-died if I hadn't come back.
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« Vienna: [without feeling] I woulda died if you hadn't come back.
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« Johnny: Tell me you still love me like I love you.
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« Vienna: [without feeling] I still love you like you love me.
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« Johnny: [bitterly] Thanks. Thanks a lot.
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« Vienna: Down there I sell whiskey and cards. All you can buy up these stairs is a bullet in the head. Now which do you want?
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Trailer:
Official Trailer
Runtime:110 minutes
Plots:
After helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob.
Vienna has built a saloon outside of town, and she hopes to build her own town once the railroad is put through, but the townsfolk want her gone. When four men hold up a stagecoach and kill a man the town officials, led by Emma Small, come to the saloon to grab four of Vienna’s friends, the Dancin’ Kid and his men. Vienna stands strong against them, and is aided by the presence of an old acquaintance of hers, Johnny Guitar, who is not what he seems.
Johnny Guitar rides into town to find his old friend Vienna in a battle with the locals. Vienna has opened a saloon and gambling hall just outside of town and has already arranged with the forthcoming railroad to build a station on the site. Local ranchers John McIvers and Emma Small want nothing to do with the railroad as they see it only as a means of bringing in farmers who’ll want to subdivide the land. Vienna is accused of consorting with the Dancing Kid who is accused of robbing the local stagecoach. Emma however is secretly in love with kid and her hatred of Vienna is driven by jealousy, though she will never admit it. Johnny is caught in the middle of it all and only Vienna knows he was once a feared gunslinger, Johnny Logan.
