Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Vienna: Who are you?! And you, and you, to break into my house with your angry faces and evil minds?!
Vienna: I intend to be buried here - in the 20th century!
Dancin` Kid: Heads I`ll kill you. Tails I`ll let you play your tune.
Bart: A man who can`t hold on to a glass should drink like a baby from a bottle. Open your mouth guitar man, and I`ll feed ya.
Vienna: You haven`t changed at all, Johnny.
Johnny: What made you think I had?
Vienna: In five years, a person should learn something.
Johnny: Five years ago, I met you in a saloon; now I find you in one. I don`t see much change.
Vienna: Except I *own* this one.
Old Tom: [dying words] Look... everybody`s looking at me. It`s the first time I ever felt important.
Emma: You all think she`s some fine lady and that doing nothing makes you fine gentlemen. Well she ain`t! And you`re not!
Johnny: [starting a song] Her name was Emma Smalls, Emma Smalls.
Vienna: If you remember, McGyvers gave me 24 hours to close. I drew out my own money, paid off my boys... and I`m closed. You can`t buy a drink or turn a card. I`m sitting here in my own house, minding my own business, playing my own piano. I don`t think you can make a crime out of that.
Vienna: Down there I sell whiskey and cards. All you can buy up these stairs is a bullet in the head. Now which do you want?
Vienna: You shouldn`t have come back, Tom.
Old Tom: I won`t be in the way.
Vienna: I can`t have anyone here.
Old Tom: Nobody notices me. I`m just part of the furniture.
Dancin` Kid: Bart, you don`t drink, you don`t smoke, you`re mean to horses. What do you like?
Bart: Me! I like me! And I`m takin` good care of me!
Emma: I`m going to kill you.
Vienna: I know. If I don`t kill you first.
Emma: You`re nothing but a railroad tramp.
Johnny: How many men have you forgotten?
Vienna: As many women as you`ve remembered.
Johnny: Don`t go away.
Vienna: I haven`t moved.
Johnny: Tell me something nice.
Vienna: Sure, what do you want to hear?
Johnny: Lie to me. Tell me all these years you`ve waited. Tell me.
Vienna: [without feeling] All those years I`ve waited.
Johnny: Tell me you`d a-died if I hadn`t come back.
Vienna: [without feeling] I woulda died if you hadn`t come back.
Johnny: Tell me you still love me like I love you.
Vienna: [without feeling] I still love you like you love me.
Johnny: [bitterly] Thanks. Thanks a lot.
Dancin` Kid: I like you, Guitar Man. How`d you like to work for me?
Johnny: I wouldn`t.
Dancin` Kid: Now all of a sudden I don`t like you.
Johnny: Now that makes me real sad.
Dancin` Kid: I didn`t get your name stranger.
Johnny: Guitar. Johnny Guitar.
Dancin` Kid: You call that a name?
Johnny: Care to try and change it?
Johnny: There`s only two things in this world that a `real man` needs: a cup of coffee and a good smoke.
Trivia
Dennis Hopper (although uncredited) made his on-screen debut in Johnny Guitar.
At one point in the movie Johnny says, "I`m a stranger here myself." This was Nicholas Ray`s own personal motto, a recurring theme in his movies, and reportedly the working title for just about every movie he directed.
Crawford, who had bought the rights to the novel, selling it to Republic Pictures with the provision that she would star, initially wanted Claire Trevor to play the part of Emma and was jealous of the younger, competitive Mercedes McCambridge.
Although Philip Yordan is credited as a screenwriter on the film, his contribution to the screenplay actually was written by Ben Maddow, whom Yordan fronted for, splitting the fee with the black-listed writer.
Joan Crawford insisted on her close-ups only being filmed in the studio, where the lighting could be rigidly controlled. No close-up of her was ever shot while on location.
In scenes where the horses rode near a waterfall, they were fitted with blinders. The animals were so afraid of the waterfall that they wouldn`t go near it without the blinders on.
Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge fought both on and off camera. One night, in a drunken rage, Crawford scattered the costumes worn by McCambridge along an Arizona highway. Cast and crew had to collect the outfits.
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