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Forty Guns

Forty Guns (AKA 40 Guns)

1957

Samuel Fuller

Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson ...

6.9

1,567

Western Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) is a despotic landowner who, with a posse of hired guns, has made herself the law of Cochise County, Arizona, with the weak-willed sheriff Ned Logan (Dean Jagger) knuckling under to her demands. One day, Griff Bonnell (Barry Sullivan), a one-time gunfighter turned United States Marshall, arrives with his brothers Wes (Gene Barry) and Chico (Robert Dix) to restore democratic law and order to Cochise ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Variety	"A solid piece of entertainment (...) Stanwyck socks over her role in experienced style and Sullivan is persuasive"	POS
United States	Dan Callahan Slant	"[It] features Sam Fuller’s punchy combination of crazy vulgarities and keen psychological insights; it’s one of his best films (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Samuel Fuller's wild, wonderful, semicoherent black-and-white 'Scope western (1957) was shot in ten days, and in some ways looks it. But it's also the feature that fully announces his talent as an avant-garde filmmaker"	POS
Canada	Jim Tudor Screen Anarchy	"This is Stanwyck in all her glory (...) Fuller’s dialogue, like the stories they’re masterfully woven into, isn’t intended to be 'historical'. It is, however, rooted firmly in emotional truth"	POS
United Kingdom	Tony Sloman Radio Times	"It's all good fun, and, in its fairly short running time, not a second is wasted (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"This is the essence of American action cinema. Just watch, and be stunned speechless yourself."	POS
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"[It] serves up doomed love and sudden death with dramatic richness."	POS

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