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Forty Guns (1957)
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BANG! BANG! YOU'RE DEAD!
FORTY GUNS is an incredibly intense, wildly dramatic Western, brimming over with sexual innuendo, and featuring (for a change of pace) a truly despicable female villain named Jessica Drummond.
At times the sexual tension between ex-gunslinger Griff Bonnell and tyrannical landowner Jessica Drummond is like a keg of dynamite ready to explode.
Here's a classic line from FORTY GUNS, delivered with sly relish by Griff to Jessica - "So, are you still interested in my gun?" says Griff with eyebrows raised and an ever-so-slight emphasis placed on the word 'gun'. What more can I say?
Jessica Drummond is a vicious, domineering landowner who's got a huge posse of tough, hired gunmen at her disposal. She has literally made herself the law in Conchise County, Arizona, where she's even got the weak-willed Sheriff, Ned Logan, knuckling right under her outrageous demands.
Griff, a one-time gunfighter, now turned US Marshal, arrives in town with his brothers, Wes and Chico, to restore democratic law and order in Conchise. Soon enough, Griff tangles with Jessica's wild, younger brother, Brockie. And in turn Brockie murders Griff's brother, Wes, on Griff's wedding day to Louvenia.
Griff, who up to this point as Marshal, has never even fired a single shot, must now break his sworn vow of non-violence and exact revenge for his brother's death.
FORTY GUNS is a tight, well-crafted Western from 1957 containing plenty of hard-driving action and 'mean'n'nasty' conflicts to please any fan of this particular genre.
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