What is Johnny Guitar / In A Lonely Place about?

Double Feature! JOHNNY GUITAR, 1954, 110 min. Joan Crawford is headstrong Vienna, a saloon owner waiting for the railroad to reach her town. Her friendship with charming outlaw the Dancing Kid jeopardizes her standing in the local community. Uptight landowners led by jealous Emma will do anything to repress her yen for the Kid, even if it means lynching half the town to do it. Enter Vienna’s old flame, Johnny, a quick-draw who’s given up guns for a guitar. IN A LONELY PLACE, 94 min. Dir. Nicholas Ray. A brilliant, moody drama about a screenwriter accused of murder and the starlet afraid to trust him. On one level, a poisonous rejection of all things Hollywood; on another, a love triangle of almost demonic intensity between the director and his two stars. Although Dorothy B. Hughes’ original novel also possessed a desolate ending, Ray’s equally downbeat climax was quite different and, undoubtedly, did not find favor with the studio powers-that-be.

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What is Johnny Guitar / In A Lonely Place about?: Double Feature! JOHNNY GUITAR, 1954, 110 min. Joan Crawford is headstrong Vienna, a saloon owner waiting for the railroad to reach her town. Her friendship with charming outlaw the Dancing Kid jeopardizes her standing in the local community. Uptight landowners led by jealous Emma will do anything to repress her yen for the Kid, even if it means lynching half the town to do it. Enter Vienna’s old flame, Johnny, a quick-draw who’s given up guns for a guitar.

IN A LONELY PLACE, 94 min. Dir. Nicholas Ray. A brilliant, moody drama about a screenwriter accused of murder and the starlet afraid to trust him. On one level, a poisonous rejection of all things Hollywood; on another, a love triangle of almost demonic intensity between the director and his two stars. Although Dorothy B. Hughes’ original novel also possessed a desolate ending, Ray’s equally downbeat climax was quite different and, undoubtedly, did not find favor with the studio powers-that-be.