Double Feature
Johnny Guitar
A female saloon owner clashes with locals who suspect her involvement in a stagecoach robbery. Meanwhile a mysterious guitar player arrives in town. Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge, who notoriously feuded behind the scenes, face off in Nicholas Ray’s boldly subversive western.
“Four stars. A cheap Western from Republic Pictures, yes. And also one of the boldest and most stylized films of its time, quirky, political, twisted.” – Roger Ebert
- Director
- Nicholas Ray
- Writer
- Screenplay by Philip Yordan based on the novel by Roy Chanslor
- Starring
- Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady, Ernest Borgnine
- Year
- 1954
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 110 minutes
Forty Guns
Barbara Stanwyck in a western classic from writer-director Samuel Fuller, beautifully filmed in black & white CinemaScope!
Tougher-than-nails landowner Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) has ruled over her county in Arizona with such power that even the local sheriff (Dean Jagger) won’t stand up to her. And when gunslinger-turned-U.S. Marshall Griff Bonnell (Barry Sullivan) and his brothers seek to restore law and order, they meet with harsh resistance – that is until Jessica falls in love with Bonnell. But when the man’s brother is murdered and the two families become bitter enemies, Jessica’s loyalty is divided, and Bonnell faces his biggest moral dilemma: how to avenge his brother’s death and still maintain his vow of non-violence. (Twentieth Century Fox)
- Director
- Samuel Fuller
- Writer
- Samuel Fuller
- Starring
- Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson, Gene Barry, Robert Dix
- Year
- 1957
- Country
- USA
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 80 minutes