One of the strangest and most crazily original of the great American Westerns, Nicholas Ray’s 1954 “Johnny Guitar” was intended as both a star vehicle for Joan Crawford and a disguised parable of the ...
Ben Cooper, a Western star of films and TV like “Johnny Guitar,” “Bonanza,” “Rawhide” and more, died in his sleep on Monday according to his nephew on the actor’s Facebook fan page. He was 86. Cooper ...
Johnny Guitar actor Ben Cooper has passed away at the age of 86. The star succumbed to a long illness in Memphis, Tennessee, on Monday, his nephew Pete Searls told The Hollywood Reporter. Cooper ...
The Western is the prime political genre, and Nicholas Ray’s “Johnny Guitar,” from 1954, is one of the greatest Westerns, but its political ideas are hardly the source of its enduring—and ...
Based on the 1954 Joan Crawford/Mercedes McCambridge film of the same name, Johnny Guitar is set in a small town in the New Mexico mountains circa 1885. The story centers of Vienna, a sultry ...
Ben Cooper, a Western star of films and TV like “Johnny Guitar,” “Bonanza,” “Rawhide” and more, died in his sleep on Monday according to his nephew on the actor’s Facebook fan page. He was 86. Cooper ...