Forty Guns (1957) [Criterion Collection]

Director: Samuel Fuller
Writers: Samuel Fuller
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger

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.

Extras:
- 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; and others
- 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







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