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May 3, 2011 · As an explicitly sexual range-war yarn, you'd automatically dub it a Freudian Western, except that the good doctor's shade could never cope with dreams like Fuller's: vivid, abstract, brutal ...
Forty Guns: Directed by Samuel Fuller. With Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson. Showdown in Arizona between the Bonnell brothers, U.S.Marshals, and Jessica Drummond, the iron-fist rancher who controls the territory.
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- Western
- Samuel Fuller
- 1957-09-10
An Arizona rancher (Barbara Stanwyck) rules with her cowboy army until a U.S. marshal (Barry Sullivan) and his brothers come to town. Director Samuel Fuller Producer Samuel Fuller Screenwriter ...
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- Barbara Stanwyck
- Samuel Fuller
- Western
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- Picture 10/10
- Audio 7/10
- Extras 8/10
- Closing
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 ...
The Criterion Collection presents Samuel Fuller’s Forty Gunson Blu-ray in its original aspect ratio of 2.35:1 on a dual-layer disc. The 1080p/24hz presentation comes from a new 4K restoration, scanned from the 35mm original camera negative. The restoration was performed by Fox. The film just looks stunning with the restoration work covering all bas...
The monaural linear PCM presentation is another wonderful surprise. Though not overly dynamic I still found range to be decent and fidelity to be impressive. The music sounds really good with no sign of distortion, and there is some nice depth to some of the gun shots, horse hoofs, and other sound effects. For an older monaural presentation it exce...
There is some wonderful material on here, starting with a 1969 audio recording of Samuel Fuller at the National Film Theatre in London. Taking questions from the moderator and various members of the audience, Fuller covers a wide range of topics about his career and life, talking about his days as a reporter, first getting into filmmaking, his thou...
Criterion’s best edition so far for one of Fuller’s films it not only offers a gorgeous and almost immaculate presentation of the film, but it also offers the most thorough collection of supplements around the filmmaker. Highly recommended. BUY AT:
Released in 1957, "Forty Guns" is a B&W Western that revolves around an authoritarian rancher, Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck), who rules an Arizona county with her private entourage of hired guns. When two marshal brothers arrive to set things aright (Barry Sullivan and Gene Barry), the cattle queen finds herself falling for the former.
May 16, 2005 · May 16, 2005. A magnificent B western shot in a little over a week, Forty Guns features Sam Fuller’s punchy combination of crazy vulgarities and keen psychological insights; it’s one of his best films. Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck), a Catherine the Great of the Arizona range, lords it over her territory with the help of a whip and 40 ...
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80 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. Budget. $300,000 [1] Forty Guns is a 1957 American Western film written and directed by Samuel Fuller, filmed in black-and-white CinemaScope and released by the 20th Century Fox studio. The film stars Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan and Gene Barry .
