... genders play in the plot. The finale has heroine Joan Crawford in white squaring off against villainess Mercedes McCambridge in black. These are exactly the colours worn by countless male cowboy good guys and bad guys throughout film history. Throughout the film, the hero Johnny Guitar is ... broad and colourful backdrop, and the result feels more like an opera than a Western. Johnny Guitar shows plot and character similarities with the second part of the earlier On Dangerous Ground (1951). Both films have a character who is driving the authorities forward to arrest someone for a crime: v...

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