Forty Guns (1957) The Masters of Cinema Series UK Blu-ray & DVD Barbara Stanwyck

Forty Guns (1957) The Masters of Cinema Series UK Blu-ray & DVD, Barbara Stanwyck\n\nTAGLINE:\n''Notorious Jessica Drummond leading her 40 thieves to hit the west like a Texas Tornado''\nSYNOPSIS:\nOne of the very best films by the uncompromising American director Samuel Fuller (also: one of the very best, and most iconoclastic, Westerns ever conceived) was also a mid-career triumph for the brilliant Barbara Stanwyck. Forty Guns finds Fuller at the height of his game.\nJessica Drummond (Stanwyck, with her iconic night-nurse babyface) is avatar of the consummate Brooklynite, transplanted here to the dusty crags of the West Cochise County, Arizona, to be precise where as a wealthy landowner she exerts a powerful influence over town affairs and commands a league of some ''forty guns'' to enact her will. The appearance of interloper Griff (a character name that recurs throughout all of Fuller s body of work, embodied this time by Barry Sullivan) precipit-