TAATM #27: Johnny Guitar vs. The Quick And The Dead

Colts are wielded by fillies this week as Heather and Paul examine two Westerns featuring female protagonists. First, Joan Crawford is a saloonkeeper who stands firm against a vengeful posse in Nicholas Ray's 1954 cult favourite JOHNNY GUITAR; then, Sharon Stone is the lone female contestant in a deadly gunslinging competition in Sam Raimi's winking 1995 homage to Sergio Leone, THE QUICK AND THE DEAD. A woman named Vienna, or a lady with no name at all: which will prevail?