Film

Forty Guns 1957

Directed by Samuel Fuller

  • Western, Drama
  • 80 min

The Taming of the Arizona Territory!

An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshal arrives to set things straight, the cattle queen finds herself falling for the avowedly non-violent lawman. Both have itchy-fingered brothers, a female gunman enters the picture, and things go desperately wrong.

WesternDramastrong womanranchwestern noir

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Grave, meticulous and relentless.

  • gravecomic
  • rawmeticulous
  • contemplativerelentless
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  • character-ledplot-driven

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