Film

Forty Guns

Director
Samuel Fuller
Certificate
PG
Running Time
80 mins

Maverick director Sam Fuller‘s final western from 1957 puts a feminist spin on the genre by casting Barbara Stanwyck as a rancher who rules her corner of Arizona ruthelesly with a posse of hired guns. Until, that is, lawman Barry Sullivan turns up with a warrant for the arrest of one of her men.

Superbly shot in monochrome CinemaScope, it’s all suitably pulpy and hard-boiled with no shortage of double entendres.

By robin askew, Tuesday, Jan 29 2019

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