highly strung
Sep 16, 2021
4 minutes
Tom Dawson
Anton van Beek
Jamie Graham
Anton van Beek
Anton van Beek
James Mottram
Simon Kinnear
Neil Smith
James Mottram
Anton van Beek
JOHNNY GUITAR PG
FILM
EXTRAS
1954 OUT NOW BD
EXTRAS Commentary, Introductions, Interview, Video essays, Limited edition book
Digitally restored for Blu-ray, this delirious mid-’50s westerncum-melodrama is directed by Nicholas Ray, a filmmaker with a fascination for anguished misfits and disillusioned outsiders. Made for the minor Hollywood studio Republic, it emerged in an era when the McCarthyite anti-Communist witch-hunts had rocked the industry.
does draw on some generic conventions: there are shoot-outs and chases on horseback, outlaw gangs and vengeful
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