Characters & Themes
Johnny Guitar (1954) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1954 · 110 mins · English
- Directed by
- Nicholas Ray
- Starring
- Ward Bond, John Carradine, Ernest Borgnine, Paul Fix, Sterling Hayden, Trevor Bardette
Vienna, the hard‑nosed owner of a frontier saloon, rules the outpost with a mix of gunslingers and troublemakers, including Dancin’ Kid’s gang. Her lover Johnny Guitar, a former gunslinger, is a regular patron. After a robbery leaves a man dead, rival Emma Small rallies the townspeople to exact revenge on Vienna’s establishment, despite lacking any proof.
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