Barbara Stanwyck (STELLA DALLAS) stars as Jessica Drummond, a rancher who runs her Arizona cattle ranch with an iron hand and a private army of 40 hired guns. The tough-as-nails matriarch has a troublesome brother whom she nonetheless dotes on, and when he shoots the sheriff she comes to his aid, unable to say no. This instigates an all-out war, which is further complicated by the fact that the new Marshall, Griff Bonnell (Barry Sullivan) falls hard for Jessica, and she returns his feelings. A gem from auteur Samuel Fuller (THE BIG RED ONE) that reads as a noir dressed as a western, the film ingeniously invokes genre tropes to investigate the intricacies of sex and love; its conclusions are less than optimistic, but the film retains a fascinating, almost surreal allure.
DVD Features:
Keep Case
Dual Side
Audio:
Dolby Digital Surround - English
Stereo - English
Mono - Spanish
Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Trailers - Theatrical Trailer
Disc 1/Side 1: FORTY GUNS - Widescreen Version
Widescreen - 2.35
Disc 1/Side 2: FORTY GUNS - Full Frame Version
Full Frame - 1.33
Writer
Samuel Fuller: Prolific cult auteur
Review 1:
"[The film] has conviction, velocity, innovation, and a final showdown as bizarre and memorable as any you can cite."
Source: Premiere
p.108 05/01/2005
Review 2:
"FORTY GUNS is above all a movie of wildly inventive imagery..."
Source: New York Times
p.E3 05/24/2005
Review 3:
"Borderline operatic and certainly on the crazy side....[A] cult CinemaScope Western..."
Source: USA Today
p.7E 06/03/2005
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