

Forty Guns
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $300K
- Box office
- $6.3K
- Language
- English
- strong woman
- ranch
- western noir
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical10 Sept 1957
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical17 Oct 1957
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalPG21 Nov 1957
CanadaCA
- Theatrical31 Oct 1957
PortugalPT
- Theatrical (limited)M/12Lisboa, Cinemateca Portuguesa1 Feb 2025
South AfricaZA
- TheatricalGermiston21 Oct 1957
- TheatricalDurban28 Nov 1957
- TheatricalSprings13 Jan 1958
- TheatricalJohannesburg31 Mar 1958
- TheatricalCape Town26 May 1958
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Forty Guns was released on 10 September 1957.
Audience reviews
2- J8/10
John Chard
3/27/2019
I was born upset. Forty Guns is written and directed by Sam Fuller. It stars Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson, Gene Barry, Robert Dix, Eve Brent and Ziva Rodann. Music is by Harry Sukman and cinematography by Joseph F. Biroc. It's all going to kick off in Arizona between the Bonnell brothers, U.S.Marshals, and Jessica Drummond - the tough no nonsense lady rancher who controls the terr…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
5/3/2026
I don't think there was ever a woman as at home in a western at Barbara Stanwyck and even though I didn't love the direction of travel this one takes, she is still near the top of her game with this. Her "Jessica" runs a vast Arizona spread from the back of her brilliant white stallion with some help from a pliable sheriff and her own private army. Then marshall "Griff" (Barry Sullivan) arrives with his two brothers …
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