Forty Guns
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| Directed by | Samuel Fuller |
| Produced by | Jules Schermer |
| Written by | Samuel Fuller |
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Barbara Stanwyck Barry Sullivan Gene Barry |
| Music by | Harry Sukman |
| Cinematography | Joseph F. Biroc |
| Edited by | Gene Fowler Jr. |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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79 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $300,000 |
Forty Guns is a 1957 gothic western film written and directed by Samuel Fuller, filmed in black-and-white CinemaScope and released by the 20th Century Fox studio. The film stars Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan and Gene Barry.
In the 1880s, Griff Bonnell (Barry Sullivan) and his brothers Wes (Gene Barry) and Chico (Robert Dix) arrive in the town of Tombstone in Cochise County, Arizona. Griff is a reformed gunslinger, now working for the Attorney General's office, looking to arrest Howard Swain (Chuck Roberson) for mail robbery.
Swain is one of landowner Jessica Drummond's (Barbara Stanwyck) forty hired guns. She runs the territory with an iron fist, permitting the town to be terrorized and trashed by her brother, Brockie Drummond (John Ericson), and his boys. Brockie is an arrogant drunk and bully, but he goes too far by shooting vision-impaired town Marshal, Chisolm (Hank Worden), in the leg. Thereupon, Brockie and his drunken friends start trashing the town.
Griff intervenes and pistol-whips Brockie with a single blow while Wes covers him with a rifle from the gunsmith shop. Aware of how close Brockie is to his sister, Griff makes it a point not to crack Brockie's skull. Jessica delivered Brockie when their mother gave birth for the last time.
Wes falls in love with Louvenie Spanger (Eve Brent), the daughter of the town gunsmith, so he decides to settle down and become the town's marshal. Griff becomes romantically involved with Jessica after she is dragged by a horse during a tornado.
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