#954: FULLER, Samuel: Forty Guns (1957)
FULLER, Samuel (United States)
Forty Guns [1957]
Spine #954
Blu-ray
The Booklet
Thirty-two page booklet featuring 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.
Commentary
None.
Interview 1
With director 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 Fuller at London’s National Film Theatre from 1969.
Interview 2
With critic Imogen Sara Smith, author of In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City.
Stills gallery
Extras Rating (0-40):
Forty Guns [1957]
Spine #954
Blu-ray
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. Marshall 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 virtuosos display of Fuller's sharpshooting talents.
80 minutes
Black & White
Monaural
2:35:1 aspect ratio
Monaural
2:35:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2018
Director/Writer
Samuel Fuller was 45 when he wrote and directed Forty Guns.
Other Fuller films in the Collection:
Eclipse Series 5: I Shot Jesse James (1949)
Eclipse Series 5: The Baron Of Arizona (1950)
Eclipse Series 5: The Steel Helmet (1951)
#224: Pickup On South Street (1953)
#19: Shock Corridor (1963)
#18: The Naked Kiss (1964)
#455: White Dog (1982)
The Film
Other Fuller films in the Collection:
Eclipse Series 5: I Shot Jesse James (1949)
Eclipse Series 5: The Baron Of Arizona (1950)
Eclipse Series 5: The Steel Helmet (1951)
#224: Pickup On South Street (1953)
#19: Shock Corridor (1963)
#18: The Naked Kiss (1964)
#455: White Dog (1982)
The Film
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Film Rating (0-60):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Thirty-two page booklet featuring 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.
Commentary
None.
Interview 1
With director 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 Fuller at London’s National Film Theatre from 1969.
Interview 2
With critic Imogen Sara Smith, author of In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City.
Stills gallery
Extras Rating (0-40):
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