Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Hank Worden
A US Marshall rides into an Arizona town to bring law and order to a place controlled by a tyrannical rich woman and the forty cowboys who make up her little army of enforcers.
DVD Release Date: May 24, 2005
Stats: 58 reviews
One wacky-doodlely Freudian Western.
"She's a high ridin' woman with a whip . . .
But if someone could break her and take her whip away,
Someone big, someone strong, someone tall,
You may find that the woman with a whip
...is only a woman after all."
"Get a doctor. She'll...( read more)
"She's a high-riding woman with a whip"
The idea of Barbara Stanwyck galloping around the prairie in a stetson, cracking a whip, is disappointingly underplayed in Forty Guns. Also the potential Freudian and feminist elements are never explored past the surface (though the two fem...( read more)
this was fun. barbara stanwyck plays the cattle queen of cochise county, with her own army of 40 gunmen. of course she's just waiting for the man who can tame her *eyeroll* and when a stranger comes to town in the form of a u.s. marshall, look out. a little melodramatic, as fu...( read more)
A fiery woman with a whip and an empire, a flinty steel-eyed gunman, a young psycho with an itchy trigger finger, seething sexuality, sometimes memorably ludicrous dialogue, love, nonsense, death, magnificent photography, and Samuel Fuller. Did I miss anything?
Lean, down and dirty Western that tells a quick, occasionally disjointed story. The 40 guns mentioned in the title are pretty much just window dressing, and I think if their role as Barbara Stanwyck's personal entourage would have been explored more this could have been cranked ...( read more)
Quite a poor movie to say the least..... Certainly not worth the time to watch it.
A... unique western. It follows a lot of the traditional rules but the characters (including the strong female lead) make it.
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