Title from title frame. Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson, Gene Barry, Robert Dix, Jidge Carroll, Paul Dubov, Gerald Milton, Ziva Rodann, Hank Worden, Eve Brent, Neyle Morrow, Chuck Roberson, Chuck Hayward, Sandra Wirth. Originally released as a motion picture in 1957. Wide screen (2.35:1). Features: New 4K digital restoration; New interview with director Samuel Fuller's widow, Christa Lang-Fuller, and daughter, Samantha Fuller; Woman with a whip, a 2018 interview with critic Imogen Sara Smith, author of In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City; A Fuller Life (2013), a feature-length documentary by Samantha Fuller about her father, featuring filmmakers Wim Wenders, William Friedkin and Monte Hellman, and actors Mark Hamill, James Franco, Jennifer Beals, Bill Duke and Constance Towers; Audio interview with Samuel Fuller at London's National Film Theatre from 1969 which plays over the film in its entirety; Stills gallery.
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.
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