Forty Guns
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.
Special Features
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- 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
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- 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 Filmmaking
New cover by Kim Thompson
Special Features
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- 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
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- 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 Filmmaking
New cover by Kim Thompson
Cast
- Barbara Stanwyck
- Jessica Drummond
- Barry Sullivan
- Griff Bonnell
- Dean Jagger
- Ned Logan
- John Ericson
- Brock Drummond
- Gene Barry
- Wes Bonnell
- Robert Dix
- Chico Bonnell
- Jidge Carroll
- Barney Cashman
- Paul Dubov
- Judge Macy
- Gerald Milton
- Shotgun Spanger
- Ziva Rodann
- Rio
- Hank Worden
- John Chisum
- Neyle Morrow
- Wiley
- Chuck Roberson
- Swain
- Chuck Hayward
- Charlie Savage
- Sandra Wirth
- Chico’s girlfriend
- Eve Brent
- Louvenia Spanger
Credits
- Director
- Samuel Fuller
- Written by
- Samuel Fuller
- Produced by
- Samuel Fuller
- Production manager
- Film editor
- Gene Fowler Jr.
- Art direction
- John Mansbridge
- Director of photography
- Joseph Biroc
- Music composed and conducted by
- Harry Sukman
- Special effects
- Norman Breedlove
- Optical effects
- Linwood Dunn
- Special photographic effects
- L. B. Abbott
- Music editor
- Audray Granville
- Set decorations
- Walter M. Scott
- Set decorations
- Chester Bayhi
- Supervising sound editor
- Bert Schoenfeld
- Wardrobe
- Robert Olivas
- Wardrobe
- Ollie Hughes
- Costume designer
- Charles LeMaire
- Costume designer
- Leah Rhodes
- Hairstylist
- Makeup
- Robert J. Schiffer
- Titles by
- Pacific Title
- Assistant director
- Sound
- Jean Speak
- Sound
- Property master
- Leigh Carson
- CinemaScope lenses by
- Songs sung by
- Jidge Carroll
A scene from Forty Guns
