Bibliograph

Forty guns., Twentieth Century-Fox presents ; written, produced, directed by Samuel Fuller, DVD; Widescreen

Type

Label

Forty guns., Twentieth Century-Fox presents ; written, produced, directed by Samuel Fuller, DVD; Widescreen

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

Not rated

Main title

Forty guns.

Oclc number

1059473497

Responsibility statement

Twentieth Century-Fox presents ; written, produced, directed by Samuel Fuller

Runtime

Series statement

Criterion collection, 954

Summary

"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 Bonell (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"--Container

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Samuel Fuller's Forty guns40 guns

resource.version

DVD; Widescreen

Classification