Johnny Guitar

A truly demented Western, with vividly colourful settings and and an almost operatic intensity of emotional and physical violence.

...an extraordinary psychological drama.

...one of the boldest and moststylized films of its time, quirky, political, twisted.

Never has such fear and self-loathing been so palpably materialized in a look, a contempt so burning and so real it can barely be contained within a stare. The film's power is drawn from and summarized by this single image...

...a dreamlike and deliriously styilized piece masquerading as a typical shoot-em-up.