Directed by:
Samuel FullerScreenplay:
Samuel FullerCinematography:
Joseph F. BirocComposer:
Harry SukmanCast:
Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson, Gene Barry, Robert Dix, Paul Dubov, Gerald Milton, Ziva Rodann, Hank Worden, Neyle Morrow (more)Plots(1)
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 Bonnell (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. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Barbara Stanwyck
USA
Best movies:
Double Indemnity (1944)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
Ball of Fire (1941)
Barry Sullivan
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
Dean Jagger
USA
Best movies:
The Nun's Story (1959)
The Proud Rebel (1958)
Vanishing Point (1971)
John Ericson
German Empire
Best movies:
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
Forty Guns (1957)
Gene Barry
USA
Best movies:
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The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Robert Dix
USA
Best movies:
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
Live and Let Die (1973)
Paul Dubov
USA
Best movies:
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Gerald Milton
USA
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The Naked Kiss (1964)
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Ziva Rodann
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Hank Worden
USA
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Neyle Morrow
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Chuck Roberson
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Chuck Hayward
USA
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Sandra Wirth
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Eve Brent
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George Sowards
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Jack Perrin
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Jack Stoney
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Tex Driscoll
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Tex Holden
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