Title from sell sheet. Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan. Originally released as a motion picture in 1957. Wide screen (2.35:1). Special features: new interview with director, Samuel Fuller's widow, Christa Lang-Fuller, and daughter, Samantha Fuller ; 'A fuller life (2013), a feature-length documentary by Samantha Fuller about her father, featuring admirers and collaborators Wim Wenders, William Friedkin, Mark Hamill, James Franco, Monte Hellman, Jennifer Beals, Bill Duke, Constance Towers and others ; new interview with critic Imogen Sara Smith, author of 'In lonely places: film noir beyond the city ; stills gallery ; An essay by film scholar Lisa Dombrowski and excerpts from Fuller's 2002 autobiography.
Summary:
High-riding rancher Jessica Drummond commands a forty-strong posse of cowboys, ruling Cochise County, Arizona, without challenge. When U.S. marshal Griff Bonnell 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.
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