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UNITED STATES · 1957

Forty Guns

Samuel Fuller
power and corruption western lawman forbidden romance family loyalty vigilante justice
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Synopsis

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.

Year1957
CountryUnited States
DirectorSamuel Fuller
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