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 ...

On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang. Another patron of Vienna's establishment is Johnny ...

WHAT: The 1954 Western Johnny Guitar goes musical in the version by Martin Silvestri, Joel Higgins and Nicholas van Hoogstraten. It opened to mixed reviews off-Broadway in 2004 but was chosen best ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ben Cooper, who portrayed the bandit Turkey Ralston in the Joan Crawford drama 'Johnny Guitar,' just one of his many appearances in Westerns on television and the big screen, has died. He was 86. By ...

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 ...

Parody musicals are all the rage these days, with the recently closed "Urinetown" being the prime example of a hit written from an ironic and twisted viewpoint. "Johnny Guitar" is the latest entry in ...