Forty Guns Movie Review 1957

Typically over-the-top Fuller production filled with melodrama, violence, and lots of sexual innuendo. The Bonnel brothers--Griff (Sullivan), Wes (Barry), and Chico (Dix)--are lawmen out to arrest Brockie (Ericson), the nasty younger brother of tough, whip-cracking Jessica Drummond (Stanwyck). Jessica basically owns and runs everything and everyone around her with the help of her hired guns. Griff falls for this western wildcat, making his job more difficult. A climatic shootout helps the movie live up to its title.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on DVD
Running time 79 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Small-Town Sheriffs, Westerns, Brothers & Sisters, Gunslingers

Screenplay

Samuel Fuller

Cast

Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Gene Barry, Robert Dix, John Ericson, Dean Jagger, Eve Brent

Cinematography

Joseph Biroc

Director

Samuel Fuller

Music

Harry Sukman