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Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson, Gene Barry
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Forty Guns |
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FORTY GUNS is a western written, produced and directed by Samuel Fuller in 1957. This is one of the westerns that regenerated a then dying genre and allowed in some ways the revolution this genre will undergo 7 years later with the arrival of Sergio Leone and the spaghetti western
The three Bonnell brothers are federal marshalls. They arrive to Tombstone, Arizona, looking for an outlaw who've stolen a federal post office. They will soon have to confront Jessica Drummond, an hard-edged woman who makes the law around town with her forty hired guns at her side. She agrees to deliver the outlaw, one of the forty guns, to Griff Bonnell but Brockie, Jessica's young brother, wants to declare war to the Bonnells.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Forty Guns |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 10%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 19th century
Western
Yes
Kind of western:
- hunting down outlaws
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- govt employee
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair style
- (woman) long wavy
Body type
- average (woman)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- cowboy
Eccentric:
Yes
- wild
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Dumb
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
Prairie?
Yes
Misc setting
- prison
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- hanging
- perforation--bullets
Check here if B&W
Yes
Any profanity?
- None
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Country/Western
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