Barbara Stanwyck,
Barry Sullivan,
Dean Jagger,
John Ericson,
Gene Barry
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Cult hero Samuel Fuller wrote and directed this visually inventive western, which didn't fare well with American audiences but earned a potent reputation with European cineastes. Jessica Drummond (Bar... read more
DVD Release Date: May 24, 2005
Stats: 72 reviews
One wacky-doodlely Freudian Western.
"She's a high ridin' woman with a whip . . .
But if someone could break her and take her whip away,
Someone big, someone strong, someone tall,
You may find that the woman with a whip
...is only a woman after all."
"Get a doctor. She'll... read more
Great western with some really nice unexpected twists. Love that gun barrel shot. Looks like Sam Fuller beat James Bond to the punch.
Although the story didn't really appeal to me, I liked how it was filmed. The shots were diverse and creative, it reminded me a little of Hitchcock's way of filming sometimes.
I wish Barbara had a bigger part in it, I can't get enough of this woman. She has a very powerful appea... read more
"She's a high-riding woman with a whip"
The idea of Barbara Stanwyck galloping around the prairie in a stetson, cracking a whip, is disappointingly underplayed in Forty Guns. Also the potential Freudian and feminist elements are never explored past the surface (though the two fem... read more
this was fun. barbara stanwyck plays the cattle queen of cochise county, with her own army of 40 gunmen. of course she's just waiting for the man who can tame her *eyeroll* and when a stranger comes to town in the form of a u.s. marshall, look out. a little melodramatic, as fu... read more
[font=Century Gothic]"Forty Guns" takes place in 1881 when Griff(Barry Sullivan), Wes(Gene Barry) and Chico(Robert Dix) Bonnell are federal marshals who are on their way to Arizona to arrest Swain, for the robbery of the mail. He is also one of the hired guns working for Jessica... read more
A fiery woman with a whip and an empire, a flinty steel-eyed gunman, a young psycho with an itchy trigger finger, seething sexuality, sometimes memorably ludicrous dialogue, love, nonsense, death, magnificent photography, and Samuel Fuller. Did I miss anything?
Lean, down and dirty Western that tells a quick, occasionally disjointed story. The 40 guns mentioned in the title are pretty much just window dressing, and I think if their role as Barbara Stanwyck's personal entourage would have been explored more this could have been cranked ... read more
Here is Sam Fuller in top gear, as writer, director and producer, with a Western that is solidly crafted and brilliantly cast. Barbara Stanwyck is at her peak, although her peak lasted decades Full Review
... sexual energy and psychotic violence that explodes onscreen in staccato editing, darting camerawork, and the maddest expressions of love this side of Duel in the Sun. Full Review
Stanwyck, by turns imperious and sly, dominates the movie. Full Review
Stanwyck is as stunning and fiery as she was all the way back in Baby Face (1933), and she helps make this one of the best Westerns of its day. Full Review
Quintessential American action cinema. Full Review
As brash, unsubtle, and pointed as Fuller's best work. Full Review
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