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Forty Guns | 
 enlarge | Director: Samuel Fuller
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson, Gene Barry
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 75627
Format: Closed-captioned, Black & White, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 79 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2227292D
UPC: 024543172918
EAN: 0024543172918
ASIN: B0007PALOI
Release Date: May 24, 2005
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Product Description
Written and directed by Samuel Fuller ("Pickup on South Street"), this stunning western follows tough rancher Barbara Stanwyck as she rules over a small Arizona town with the help of 40 hired gunmen. After U.S. marshal Barry Sullivan and his two brothers arrive to bring order to the community, Stanwyck finds herself falling for the avowedly non-violent lawman--which leads to a dramatic confrontation. With Dean Jagger, John Ericson. 79 min. Standard and Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital Surround, Dolby Digital stereo, Spanish Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, Spanish.
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Forty Guns is the most rampantly sexualized Western ever made, and the most outrageous of Samuel Fuller's late-'50s B movies. Fuller's original title was "Woman with a Whip," referring to the hard-riding range baroness--Barbara Stanwyck, sporting silver hair and (most of the time) black, skintight man togs--who's "the boss of Cochise County" and a law unto herself. The forty guns are an army of pistoleros who accompany her just about everywhere, and Fuller misses no opportunity to exaggerate their macho assertiveness in black-and-white CinemaScope, whether thundering along the horizon or formed up on either side of a preposterously long dinner table with Stanwyck at its head. Barry Sullivan costars as a Wyatt Earp–like gunfighter who both threatens Stanwyck's empire and awakens her lust for something besides power. As one of his brothers, Gene Barry (soon to star in Fuller's mind-blowing Vietnam movie China Gate) enjoys a passionate liaison with a gunsmith's busty blond daughter (Eve Brent) whom he romances down the bore of a rifle--an image Jean-Luc Godard would memorialize in Breathless. In the relentlessly double-entendre dialogue and the blocking of scenes, everything takes on sexual overtones: power and impotence, political advantage and exclusion. Fuller and cameraman Joseph Biroc capture many sequences in single, minutes-long takes that often end in a death--and in one perverse instance, the revelation of a death that has occurred midway through without our knowing it. (It's a T.S. Eliot moment, though we won't insist on it.) Style is all in this movie, which will leave you either astonished or aghast. More likely, both. --Richard T. Jameson
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