Forty Guns (Criterion Collection) (1957) on Blu-ray

Actor: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan
Director: Samuel Fuller
Genre: Western
Year: 1957
Studio: Criterion Collection
Length: 80
Released: 12/11/2018
Rating: Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format: Blu-ray
Misc/Special Features: Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles : N/A

DESCRIPTION:

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 Bonnell (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.