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Forty Guns on DVD (1957)

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Average rating: 60%
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3.0
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Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson, Gene Barry
Director: Samuel Fuller
Studio: OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time: 77 mins
Certificate: PG
Genres: Action/Adventure
Languages: English
Released: 23/08/2004

Brief synopsis of Forty Guns

Barbara Stanwyck plays Jessica Drummond, one hell of a tough momma, who has her own posse of tough gun-toting guys to help her rule the local county. One day her brother Brockie (John Ericson) needs her protection...

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Rating of 3 stars out of 5 Radio Times

Samuel Fuller was one of American cinema's true mavericks who eventually found a comfortable base at 20th Century-Fox, turning out a series of lurid melodramas that later achieved cult status, including this stylishly photographed CinemaScope western. Barbara Stanwyck (slightly too old) plays a ruthless Arizona rancher who is a law unto herself, until marshal Barry Sullivan (who hasn't killed a soul in ten years) turns up. It's all good fun, and, in its fairly short running time, not a second is wasted.

Time Out

Possessed of a gun-crazy sting all its own, Fuller's near-legendary B Western still excites dazed amazement and still... Read more on www.timeout.com

Rating of 1 stars out of 4 Halliwell's Film Guide

Heavily melodramatic and slow-moving Western with a few effective moments.

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Rated - 5 starsFANTASTIC!

Sean Kelly from Canterbury, England , 25/03/2006

Do not listen to the 'professional' reviews here, this film is for 'pure' cinema lovers. Barbara Stanwyck in a Sam Fuller film! Ace! Check out the scene with the looking down of the gun barrel into the kiss. Now watch Godard's A Bout De Souffle and see how it is referenced in the Jean Seberg scene where she too 'looks' at Paul Belmondo. Wonderful Stuff. RENT THIS NOW!

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Rated - 3 starsCurious

Cato , 07/09/2006

What a curiosity this film was. It started like 'El Cid', horses charging along a dusty path, and then became part Monty Python, part 'Blazing Saddles', part Greek drama, all delivered in uncharacteristically enunciated language which was often out of synch with the actors' mouths. The plot was something about a strong cowgirl ma'am, played by Barbara Stanwyck, and her presumably gang of 40 men, but it kept tailing off and never really got anywhere interesting. A curiously uninvolving film, although some regard it as a cult B movie. Perhaps it influenced Sergio Leone.

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Rated - 3 starsCurious

Cato , 07/09/2006

What a curiosity this film was. It started like 'El Cid', horses charging along a dusty path, and then became part Monty Python, part 'Blazing Saddles', part Greek drama, all delivered in uncharacteristically enunciated language which was often out of synch with the actors' mouths. The plot was something about a strong cowgirl ma'am, played by Barbara Stanwyck, and her presumably gang of 40 men, but it kept tailing off and never really got anywhere interesting. A curiously uninvolving film, although some regard it as a cult B movie. Perhaps it influenced Sergio Leone.

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