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1 videodisc (80 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1957
"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. Marshal 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 virtuoso display of Fuller's sharpshooting talents"--Container
Wide screen (2.35:1)
Features: New 4K digital restoration with ucompressed monaural soundtrack; New interview with director Samuel 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; Audio interview with Samuel Fuller at London's National Film Theatre from 1969; New interview with critic Imogen Sara Smith, author of In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City; Stills gallery; Booklet with 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
Director of photography, Joseph Biroc ; editor, Gene Fowler, Jr. ; original music, Harry Sukman
Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson, Gene Barry, Robert Dix, Jidge Carroll, Paul Dubov, Gerald Milton, Ziva Rodann, Hank Worden, Eve Brent, Neyle Morrow, Chuck Roberson, Chuck Hayward, Sandra Wirth
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Blu-ray, region A; widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio) presentation; monaural
English dialogue with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)