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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.
Original Release
09/10/1957
US Release
09/10/1957
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Barbara Stanwyck | Jessica Drummond |
Barry Sullivan | Griff Bonell |
Dean Jagger | Sheriff Ned Logan |
John Ericson | Brockie Drummond |
Gene Barry | Wes Bonell |
Robert Dix | Chico Bonell |
Jidge Carroll | Barney Cashman |
Paul Dubov | Judge Macy |
Gerald Milton | Shotgun Spanger |
Ziva Rodann | Rio |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Barbara Stanwyck | Jessica Drummond |
Barry Sullivan | Griff Bonell |
Dean Jagger | Sheriff Ned Logan |
John Ericson | Brockie Drummond |
Gene Barry | Wes Bonell |
Robert Dix | Chico Bonell |
Jidge Carroll | Barney Cashman |
Paul Dubov | Judge Macy |
Gerald Milton | Shotgun Spanger |
Ziva Rodann | Rio |
Hank Worden | Marshal John Chisum |
Neyle Morrow | Wiley |
Chuck Roberson | Howard Swain |
Chuck Hayward | Charlie Savage |
Sandy Wirth | Chico's Girlfriend |
Eve Brent | Louvenia Spanger |
Albert Cavens | Doctor |
Tex Driscoll | Barber |
Bob Folkerson | Gunman |
Carol Henry | Gunman |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Samuel Fuller | Producer |