Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller 1957)
After watching Barbara Stanwyck in The Furies and enjoying it, I got a hankering for more of her westerns. Forty Guns is either really great in a European style of film making, or it's got one of the strangest scripts to come to light.
Samuel Fuller was known for his in-your-face style of tabloid film making...and he made some damn fine movies too. But with Forty Guns, a film he not only produced and directed but also wrote, we get dialogue that seems overly polished, with clever proses, but somehow it never felt like it rang true to the ears. For most of the move I was somewhat baffled by what the characters motivations were, and just where we were at in the story line.
Either this is such an inventive film that it went over my unsophisticated head...or...the script needed a rewrite.
At any rate this looks great! It's filmed in wide screen Cinemascope and director Sam Fuller takes full advantage of that panoramic process. I loved the idea of a beautiful girl who's an ace gun smith and expert shot. I don't know why, but that was cool. Then there's the scene with a half dozen men in bathtubs, not my thing, but it was rather comical looking. This is probably a film somebody should watch and decide for themselves.
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Samuel Fuller was known for his in-your-face style of tabloid film making...and he made some damn fine movies too. But with Forty Guns, a film he not only produced and directed but also wrote, we get dialogue that seems overly polished, with clever proses, but somehow it never felt like it rang true to the ears. For most of the move I was somewhat baffled by what the characters motivations were, and just where we were at in the story line.
Either this is such an inventive film that it went over my unsophisticated head...or...the script needed a rewrite.
At any rate this looks great! It's filmed in wide screen Cinemascope and director Sam Fuller takes full advantage of that panoramic process. I loved the idea of a beautiful girl who's an ace gun smith and expert shot. I don't know why, but that was cool. Then there's the scene with a half dozen men in bathtubs, not my thing, but it was rather comical looking. This is probably a film somebody should watch and decide for themselves.
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