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Forty Guns (1957)
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September 1957 (USA) morePlot:
An authoritarian rancher, Barbara Stanwyck, who rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
It's a must see for the Western fans and cult movies lovers moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Barbara Stanwyck | ... | Jessica Drummond | |
| Barry Sullivan | ... | Griff Bonnell | |
| Dean Jagger | ... | Sheriff Ned Logan | |
| John Ericson | ... | Brockie Drummond | |
| Gene Barry | ... | Wes Bonnell | |
| Robert Dix | ... | Chico Bonnell | |
| Jidge Carroll | ... | Barney Cashman | |
| Paul Dubov | ... | Judge Macy | |
| Gerald Milton | ... | Shotgun Spanger | |
| Ziva Rodann | ... | Rio | |
| Hank Worden | ... | Marshal John Chisum | |
| Neyle Morrow | ... | Wiley | |
| Chuck Roberson | ... | Howard Swain | |
| Chuck Hayward | ... | Charlie Savage | |
| Sandra Wirth | ... | Chico's Girlfriend |
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Samuel Fuller's Forty Guns (Australia)Woman with a Whip (USA) (original script title)
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79 minCountry:
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2.35 : 1 moreSound Mix:
4-Track Stereo (RCA Sound Recording)Certification:
Germany:16 | USA:Approved (certificate #18646) | Australia:PG | France:U (2002 re-release)Fun Stuff
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Condemned in the US because of its brutal handling of the narrative, but praised in Europe for its stylistic vigor. moreQuotes:
Griff Bonnell: [on being offered her foreman's job] Why me?Jessica Drummond: I need a strong man to carry out my orders.
Griff Bonnell: And a weak man to take them.
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Jessicca Drummond(Barbara Stanwick) is an untameable owner who rules over a small city in Arizona county.The cattle queen is supported by a little army constituted by forty gunfighters.Her power will be modified with arriving the Bonnell brothers(Barry Sullivan,Gene Evans and Dix),one of them(Sullivan) is proclaimed sheriff and his vision from law and justice differs quite of Jessica Drummond and her brother(John Erikson),a young gunman eager to take up a life of crime.
It's a magnificent Western plenty of violence,hate,gunplay,impossible love story...in a word :emotion,besides contains effective action sequences as the raid on the small town. Of course there are ritual shoot out between gunfighters confronting each other in a quick-draw duel in the accepted Western movie fashion,but this time with no observing the honourable ¨Code of the west¨the showdown isn't the usual but is developed of strangest manner and no habitual rules as is seen in the initial and final feud. The film has exciting and captivating images as when appears Barbara Stanwick riding in her white stallion and with his forty henchmen worn in black and in column(as Alibaba and the forty thieves from thousand and one nights book) and the appearing of dead on the showcase with the caption:murdered by Bonell brothers and shot in back.Besides a sensational black and white cinematography by Joseph Biroc.The film gets excellent edition by Gene Fowler,he is a famed editor and occasionally director of Western and Sci-Fi(I married a monster from outer space,I was a teenage wolf).Samuel Fuller direction is inspired,he directed another three especial Western(Run of the arrow, Baron the Arizona,I shot Jesse James),this is the best,he realized a thrilling and fascinating Western converted nowadays in an essential cult movie.