Forty Guns

Forty Guns
by Samuel Fuller

Forty Guns
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Actor: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, Gene Barry, John Ericson
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cinematographer: Joseph F. Biroc
Producer: Samuel Fuller
Writer: Samuel Fuller
Editor: Gene Fowler Jr.
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 79 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox

Movie Reviews of Forty Guns

Movie Review: Samuel Fuller's Weird Western
Summary: 4 Stars

You gotta love Samuel Fuller. Almost all his movies have some sort of dominatrix business going on and this one is no exception. Barbara Stanwyck plays a woman who rides a white horse, packs a whip, and usually travels at top speed at the head of a posse of 40 cowboys, also moving at a gallop. The scene where they are all seated at a meal in her house looked like a demented Snow White and the seven dwarves. I think they all had their hats on, even, but I'm not sure I'm remembering that right.

Some of the other reviewers mention that Stanwyck did her own stunts in this movie--I wondered about that. In one of the first scenes where she is galloping and the camera is following her, I couldn't imagine how they found a stunt double who looked that much like her...guess they didn't.

Some of the weirdness was just plain laughable to me, like the guy who walks around with a guitar singing about the "High Riding Woman with a Whip." Too funny!

Summary of Forty Guns

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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