Release Date: 5/24/2005 Original Release: 1957 Format: DVD Length: 79 minutes Rating:Not Rated Rating Reason: (Reason unavailable) UPC: 024543172918 Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainm
Barbara Stanwyck (STELLA DALLAS) stars as Jessica Drummond, a rancher who runs her Arizona cattle ranch with an iron hand and a private army of 40 hired guns. The tough-as-nails matriarch has a troublesome brother whom she nonetheless dotes on, and when he shoots the sheriff she comes to his aid, unable to say no. This instigates an all-out war, which is further complicated by the fact that the new Marshall, Griff Bonnell (Barry Sullivan) falls hard for Jessica, and she returns his feelings. A gem from auteur Samuel Fuller (THE BIG RED ONE) that reads as a noir dressed as a western, the film ingeniously invokes genre tropes to investigate the intricacies of sex and love; its conclusions are less than optimistic, but the film retains a fascinating, almost surreal allure.
DVD Features
Keep Case Dual Side Audio: Dolby Digital Surround - English Mono - Spanish Stereo - English Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional Additional Release Material: Trailers: Theatrical Trailer Disc 1/Side A: FORTY GUNS - Widescreen Version Widescreen - 2.35 Disc 1/Side B: FORTY GUNS - Full Frame Version Full Frame - 1.33
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