Johnny Guitar 👍

“A man can lie, steal… and even kill. But as long as he hangs on to his pride, he’s still a man. All a woman has to do is slip – once. And she’s a “tramp!” Must be a great comfort to you to be a man.”

V Bechdel test

V Mako Mori Test

V Sexy Lamp Test

X The Crystal Gems Test
(not enough women)

X F-rating

V Sphinx Test

X The Feldman Score 4 points

X Furiosa Test
Though I read "“Feminism has gone too far,” The New York Herald-Tribune began its review." - Maybe it DID pass Furiosa Test?

V The Roxane Gay Test

The Maisy Test

X Gender Balance - Gender Representation

There practically is only two women in this movie. (There are some shown in the town when the funeral folks rode out to lynch people. For some reason these women weren't at the funeral all the adult men were...)

There are three women in the crew; hair, costume and ms Crawford's singing voice.

X The Uphold Test

X The Rees Davies Test

X The White Test

X The Hagen Test

X The Koeze-Dottle Test

V Gender Freedom

Now, here we have a good example of how to make a historically believable movie avoiding stereotypical gender roles.

V The Peirce Test

V The Villarreal Test

Yes, she is introduced as "hardened, expressionless or soulless", but she is in a position of authority and she makes her own decisions throughout the movie.

V The Landau Test

The Willis Test

I don't know if one could just invert the roles and words.

V Molly Haskell test

She doesn't sacrifice anything for anyone. She doesn't need to choose between her career and a man. She isn't competing about a man, even though her adversary thinks she is, and hates her because the man in question loves the heroine, and not the villain.

"Never seen a woman who's more man - she thinks like a man, acts like one"

Vienna works. I don't know what Emma does, she isn't ever shown in domestic setting, always leading the mob against her war on Vienna.
Neither is shown submissive, ineffective, helpless, quiet, meek or weak. On the contrary. It is the women who are the bosses here and men do their bidding.
Women don't assist men, men assist women.
Women have their own goals and everything they do is to achieve that goal.
Women are assertive and active.
Both are active parts in their own solution. It ends up with a shootout between the women, where one gets injured and the other dead.

Now, Johnny rescues Vienna. After this we have some stereotypical crap, like she just have to stumble on rocks and he rescues her again, and stuff like that. She also cooks eggs and bacon for him.
But we also have her changing her ladylike white dress into something more practical.

Men are shown having emotions and being interested in relationships. It is men here begging to be loved.
Men are shown wanting to solve problems without violence.
Men are shown supporting a female.

Now, neither of these women have any female friends. In practice "the only other female is her adversary", and their relationship IS all about a man. Now, that the heroine doesn't want this man, and think he should be with the other woman, is on one hand irrelevant, but on the other hand very important. She doesn't base her actions or decisions on getting this man.

The female lead is set up apart from other women. She is "more a man", she is alone in the Wild West, she doesn't have any equals, not even among the men.

Now, the male is also set up as exceptional - because he is one of the best shooters in the world, but he's a pacifist. He doesn't want to have anything to do with guns, he just wants to play his guitar.
Now, he is being bullied because of this, and he has to fight to prove he's a man, so that's not so good.
In the middle of the story he tries to tell Vienna that he has to use guns, but she tells him she doesn't want him to, that this situation must be solved without using violence and that he doesn't work for her any more.

V the MacGyver Test

V the Raleigh Becket Test

sort of... they ARE romantically involved.

I don't think the men in Vienna's place complain about having a female boss. It's more like they are proud of her and very fond of her.
I don't think she is punished for her dominant ways. I also don't think Emma has a problem with her freedom, power, control or sexuality. I think she has a very simple problem. She is in love with Dancing Kid, who doesn't want her, he wants Vienna. Emma is mad of jealousy. She wants her dead.

Emma also has problems with strangers. She wants to be alone here. She gets the men to follow her by telling them Vienna will bring in the railroad and then there will be a lot of Easterners coming, to push them away, to fence them in with fence posts and barbed wire.

It doesn't make things better that Vienna sits on a precious property, because she presumably seduced a railroad man to find out important information and to be able to buy a worthless piece of land. The "town owner" can't stand for someone else having that piece of land.

V The Man-child Test

All the men are adults here. Even Turkey who is called "a boy".

V Gender Safety

There is some kissing without consent, dancing with a woman without consent, things like that. No sexualization, objectification or other sexual violence.

These women dress the way they did at the time, though adjusted to the time period when it was made. Joan Crawford is wearing 1954 pants, not 1854. She is a bit stereotypically depicted, as having an hourglass figure, which is even more obvious when she's wearing pants. Joan Crawford is also shown wearing a nightgown, showing some cleavage. She is also shown in her underwear, but it's the 20th century underwear (as it was in the 1950s :-D), so nothing is really shown.
No male nudity.

Joan Crawford (Vienna) was 50
Sterling Hayden (Johnny) and Mercedes McCambridge (Emma) were 38
Scott Brady (Dancing Kid) was 30

X Social Justice and Equality:

Again, everybody is white, able-bodied and straight, so not much diversity here.

The whole movie is a comment against McCarthyism, so very strong social justice presence here. Even if one doesn't know about McCarthy (and if that's how it is, you really need to study the issue), there are themes of xenophobia, envy, class; we have this town with the rich landowner and the new-comer who invades their traditional world and questions their monarchy. She must be driven away, killed if that's the only way to get rid of her. She represents The Other.

V The Representation Test B

Notes:

Joan's screen presence is amazing.
Sterling Hayden is 196
Joan Crawford is 160
She stands in front of him staring up to him and they seem to be on equal level...
Later she does the same with Scott Brady, who's 188.
And those eyes... when she is about to be hanged and she looks at the men, with so much sadness... I couldn't have hanged her.

I find Emma's madness really distressing and this is really hard movie to watch. 

"Nicholas Ray directed what may well be the single coolest performance ever delivered in Hollywood—Sterling Hayden’s, in the title role of the 1954 Western “Johnny Guitar.” The scene in which he defuses armed conflict at a bar—with a cup of coffee and a cigarette—sets the tone for an entire generation."
Richard Brody

Johnny Guitar: A Feminist Western with a dark twist