Forty Guns
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
Sombre, kinetic, measured western, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall 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.
Our read · Forty Guns (1957) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive western entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of Forty Guns
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The reading.
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