FORTY GUNS - DVD-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1957
• Genre: Romance, Western
• Plot: Hollywood legend Barbara Stanwyck saddled up with writer-director Samuel Fuller for the pulp maestro’s most audacious western, a boldly feminist spin on the genre that pivots effortlessly between ribald humor, visceral action, and disarming tenderness. High-riding rancher Jessica Drummond (Stanwyck) commands a forty-strong posse of cowboys, ruling Cochise County, Arizona, without challenge. When U.S. Marshal Griff Bonell (Barry Sullivan) and his brothers arrive in town with a warrant for one of her hired guns, Jessica begins to fall for the lawman even as he chips away at her authority. With astonishing black-and-white CinemaScope photography, hard-boiled dialogue laced with double entendres, and a fiery performance by Stanwyck at her most imperious, Forty Guns is a virtuoso display of Fuller’s sharpshooting talents.
• Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson, Gene Barry, Robert Dix, Jidge Carroll, Paul Dubov, Gerald Milton, Ziva Rodann, Hank Worden, Neyle Morrow, Chuck Roberson, Chuck Hayward, Sandy Wirth, Eve Brent, Tex Driscoll, Tex Holden, Eddie Parks, Jack Perrin, George Sowards, Jack Stoney, Samuel Fuller
• Director: Samuel Fuller
• Runtime: 1:20
• Company: The Criterion Collection, 20th Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie