Forty Guns [Criterion Collection]

Forty Guns [Criterion Collection]

Director: Samuel Fuller Cast: Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck
, Barry Sullivan
Barry Sullivan
, Dean Jagger
Dean Jagger
, Gene Barry
Gene Barry
Samuel Fuller
Forty Guns [Criterion Collection]

Forty Guns [Criterion Collection]

Director: Samuel Fuller Cast: Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck
, Barry Sullivan
Barry Sullivan
, Dean Jagger
Dean Jagger
, Gene Barry
Gene Barry
Samuel Fuller

DVD (Black & White)

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Overview

This Sam Fuller western contains elements and production techniques that were to show up in spaghetti westerns of the '60s. Fuller's West was a violent, lawless place, lacking the moral grounding found in typical genre entries. Forty Guns was not well received by American film critics, but in Europe it is a revered work, particularly in France where Fuller has become a cult figure and is considered one of the most important and innovative of post WW II American filmmakers. The story centers on Barbara Stanwyck who plays a powerful female landowner who basically runs an entire Arizona county with an iron fist. Her decrees are enforced by a small army of cowboy henchmen and she meets with little opposition from the willow-spined sheriff and the terrorized residents. Things go just as she wants until a gunslinger-turned-pacifistic-US Marshal and his two brothers ride to town to usurp Stanwyck and her psychotic brother. Once there, one of the brothers falls in love with the lovely town gunsmith. Their wedding day is destroyed when Stanwyck's brother shoots the groom, causing the Marshal to forsake his vow to never again use his gun.

Product Details

Release Date: 12/11/2018
UPC: 0715515220910
Original Release: 1957
Rating: NR
Source: Criterion Collection
Region Code: 1
Presentation: [B&W]
Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono]
Language: English
Time: 1:20:00
Sales rank: 19,468

Special Features

New 4k digital restoration; New interview with Director Samuel Fuller's widow, Christa Lang Fuller, and daughter, Samantha Fuller; A Fuller Life (2013), a feature-length documentary by Samantha Fuller about her father, featuring filmmakers Wim Wenders, William Friedkin, and Monte Hellman, actors Mark Hamill, James Franco, Jennifer Beals, Bill Duke, and Constance Towers; Audio Interview with Samuel Fuller at London's National Film Theatre from 1969; New interview with critic Imogen Sara Smith, author of In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City; Stills Gallery; Plus: An essay by film scholar Lisa Dombrowski and a chapter from Fuller's posthumously published 2002 autobiography, A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking1957

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Barbara Stanwyck Jessica Drummond
Barry Sullivan Griff Bonnell
Dean Jagger Sheriff Ned Logan
Gene Barry Wes Bonnell
John Ericson Brockie Drummond
Robert Dix Chico Bonnell
Jack 'Jidge' Carroll Barney Cashman
Gerald Milton Shotgun Spangler
Eve Brent Louvenia Spangler
Ziva Rodann Rio
Hank Worden John Chisum
Neyle Morrow Wiley
Chuck Roberson Howard Swain
Chuck Hayward Charlie Savage
Sandra Wirth Chico's Girl
Paul Dubov Judge Macey
Eddie Parks Sexton
Harry Sukman Composer

Technical Credits
L.B. Abbott Special Effects
Norman Breedlove Special Effects
Linwood Dunn Special Effects
Samuel Fuller Producer,Director,Screenwriter
Jean Speak Sound/Sound Designer
Harry M. Leonard Sound/Sound Designer

Scene Index

Disc #1 - Forty Guns
255. Chapters
1. "High Ridin' Woman" [8:57]
2. Tearing Up The Town [2:14]
3. Griff vs. Brockie [8:10]
4. Unbranded Calf [5:56]
5. "A Warrant For One Of Your Men" [8:05]
6. Chico and Swain [6:56]
7. "I Was Born Upset" [6:36]
8. Two Feet And A Gun [3:03]
9. A Savage Trap [7:46]
10. "Shot In Back Of Head" [7:11]
11. "God Has His Arms Around Me" [6:04]
12. "Get A Doctor" [4:17]
13. "Forget The Man You Love" [4:52]
1. Chapter 1 [4:37]
2. Chapter 2 [4:06]
3. Chapter 3 [3:50]
4. Chapter 4 [8:11]
5. Chapter 5 [3:25]
6. Chapter 6 [10:05]
7. Chapter 7 [4:01]
8. Chapter 8 [4:35]
9. Chapter 9 [5:25]
10. Chapter 10 [5:27]
11. Chapter 11 [6:20]
12. Chapter 12 [5:40]
13. Chapter 13 [9:03]
14. Chapter 14 [5:27]
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