Forty Guns 1957
Forty Guns stars the great Barbara Stanwyck as Jessica Drummond, a wealthy landowner in Arizona. She’s a powerful woman who has control over the ‘forty guns’ of the title, a band of riders who help her maintain her dominant position over the area alongside her ability to pay off anyone she needs. When ex-hired gun Griff Bonnell (Barry Sullivan) and his two brothers ride into town and put a stop to her brother Brockie’s (John Ericson) drunken bullying, Jessica begins to lose her tight grip. This isn’t helped by the fact that she falls in love with Griff. Brockie isn’t about to let the Bonnells get away with what they did though and Jessica becomes torn between both sides whilst Griff’s life is put in danger.

A remarkable, typically eccentric film produced, written, and directed by the irreplaceable Samuel Fuller, Forty Guns is quite unlike any Western made before or since. It's floridly melodramatic in the Douglas Sirk manner and, for its time, was explicitly violent with outrageous sexual innuendo.
Like many other Fuller films, Forty Guns influenced the director’s younger European counterparts.

Director: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger
Country: USA
Genre: Romance, Western

BD50, DVD9 | 1080p AVC, NTSC | 01:20:16 | 45.4 Gb + 7.57 Gb
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Extras:

-- Fuller Women - in this brand new video interview, Sam Fuller's widow, Christa Lang Fuller, and daughter, Samantha Fuller, talk about the exact period in which the director made Forty Guns, the hilarious dialog and key themes, Barbara Stanwyck's performance, his contract and great relationship with Darryl F. Zanuck, his love for the Wild West and the type of characters that he created for his films, etc. The interview was conducted exclusively for Criterion in Los Angeles in 2018. In English, not subtitled (20 min, 1080p).

-- Woman with a Whip - in this new video interview, Imogen Sara Smith, author of Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City, deconstructs the narrative and style of Sam Fuller's Forty Guns. The interview was conducted in New York in 2018. There are additional comments about the evolution of the western genre as well. In English, not subtitled (35 min, 1080p).

-- A Fuller Life - directed and produced by Samantha Fuller, this documentary chronicles the incredible life and career of Sam Fuller while using his own words and footage that he shot over the years. With readings by James Franco, Jennifer Beals, Bill Duke, Robert Carradine, Mark Hamill, Joe Dante, Tim Roth, William Friedkin, Monte Hellman, and Wim Wenders, amongst others. The documentary is based on the director's memoirs, A Third Face. In English, with optional English SDH subtitles. (81 min, 1080p).

-- Stills Gallery - presented here is a collection of photographs from the production of Forty Guns which were found in Sam Fuller's archives. Included amongst them are promotional items and set-design drawings.

-- Samuel Fuller - presented here is an archival recorded Q&A session with director Sam Fuller that took place at the National Film Theatre in London, in 1969. A wide range of topics are discussed, from the role that violence has in his films, his directing skills and how they were acquired (without preliminary training), some of the director's lensing and cutting preferences, the ways in which Hollywood treated writers, etc. Audio only. (78 min).

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