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Forty Guns Details

1957

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Starring	Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson
Director	Samuel Fuller
Genres	Action/Adventure

Forty Guns

Cult hero Samuel Fuller wrote and directed this visually inventive western, which didn't fare well with American audiences but earned a potent reputation with European cineastes. Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) is a despotic landowner who, with a posse of hired guns, has made herself the law of Cochise County, Arizona, with the weak-willed sheriff Ned Logan (Dean Jagger) knuckling under to her demands. One day, Griff Bonnell (Barry Sullivan), a one-time gunfighter turned United States Marshall, arrives with his brothers Wes (Gene Barry) and Chico (Robert Dix) to restore democratic law and order to Cochise County. Griff soon tangles with Drummond's brother Brockie (John Ericson), though Jessica is attracted to the new lawman, and Griff finds love with female gunsmith Louvenia Spangler (Eve Brent). Griff and Louvenia marry, but on their wedding day, Brockie murders Wes, and Griff, who takes pride in the fact that he has never fired his gun since becoming a marshal, must now break his vow of non-violence.~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Starring	Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson, Gene Barry
Director	Samuel Fuller
Studio	ELEVATION
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 17 mins
Certificate
Genres	Action/Adventure
Language	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1957 To Rent: DVD: 23 Aug 2004

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- Possessed of a gun-crazy sting all its own, Fuller's near-legendary B Western still excites dazed amazement and still... read more on Time Out
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  Cult hero Samuel Fuller wrote and directed this visually inventive western, which didn't fare well with American audiences but earned a potent reputation with European cineastes. Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) is a despotic landowner who, with a posse of hired guns, has made herself the law of ...