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Forty Guns (1957)

Forty Guns poster
Directed by
Samuel Fuller
Genre
Western film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 16m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 143 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A tough female rancher with a gang of hired gunmen controls a town. A federal marshal arrives and conflicts with her over her iron grip on the territory.

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What happens

Forty Guns is a 1957 American Western film starring Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan and Gene Barry. Written and directed by Samuel Fuller, the independent black-and-white picture was filmed in CinemaScope and released by 20th Century Fox. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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