Johnny Guitar (70th Anniversary)(Weekend Classics)
Schedule
Sun May 26 2024 at 11:00 am
Location
1005 McCausland Ave, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63117 | Richmond Heights, MO
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“How many men have you forgotten?” “As many women as you remember.” In a dusty Arizona town, Joan Crawford’s pants-wearing, gun-toting saloon owner stands to rake in the dough when the railroad comes through. But when the stage is robbed and a rancher murdered, the townspeople ready a noose for her more-than-friend The Dancin’ Kid (Scott Brady), with insanely jealous cattle baroness Mercedes McCambridge (years later the voice of the Devil in THE EXORCIST) hell-bent on having Crawford join him. Enter Joan’s old flame Sterling Hayden, as the eponymous Johnny, who, despite preferring guitar-play over gun-play — and up against bad guys like Ernest Borgnine and Ward Bond — does what a man’s gotta do.Nick Ray’s baroque, emotionally tormented Western bursts at the seams with sexual tension and anti-McCarthy allegory. American reviewers scratched their heads (British critic Gavin lambert deemed it one of the silliest films of the year), but it was immediately embraced by the young critics of Cahiers du Cinéma – among them future directors Eric Rohmer (“Ray is the poet of love and violence”), Jean-Luc Godard (“here is something which exists only in cinema”), and François Truffaut (“dream-like, magical, delirious… the BEAUTY AND THE BEAST of the Western”). (Film Forum)
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Where is it happening?
1005 McCausland Ave, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63117, 1005 McCausland Ave, St Louis, MO 63117-1924, United States,St. Louis, Missouri, Richmond HeightsEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
