(Nicholas Ray, 1954, United States, 110 minutes)

A revisionist Western made at a time when a large section of the population didn’t recognize that the Western genre could use some revising, Nick Ray’s Johnny Guitar focuses on female leads who are much stronger than their male counterparts. Witness Vienna (Joan Crawford, never anyone to take lightly), a widely-disliked saloon owner who has to defend herself and her bar when accused of crimes she did not commit by her rival Emma Small (Mercedes McCambridge).At Vienna’s side is her ex-lover, Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden).