Forty Guns Page #3

Synopsis: An authoritarian rancher, Barbara Stanwyck, who 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, brutally for the avowedly non-violent lawman. Both have itchy-fingered brothers, a female gunmaker enters the picture, and things go desperately wrong.
 
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1957
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- Sometimes a man's gotta

blow off a little steam.

If you can't handle a horse

without spurs, you have no business riding.

Come on. Your guns.

Rio!

Why'd you run to my sister,

cry on her shoulder like the rest?

No, Brockie, I'm not like the rest.

Runnin'to her for help.

That makes you no different.

Who could I go to, Brockie?

Who could I turn to?

You know I'm alone, and you wouldn't

see me anymore.

I had to go to her.

You know what

you're gonna do?

You're gonna go to my sister, and you're

gonna tell her I never touched you.

No, Brockie.

I'm not going to lie to her.

She was kind to me.

She gave me money.

She said she would

help me, and that...

- You're gonna tell her it's a lie.

- No, Brockie.

I ought to shove you right off this cliff.

- You do, and your bread

and butter goes with me.

- If Jessica weren't your sister...

You'll never get her, Logan.

You're too clumsy, too weak.

You haven't got the stomach

for her kind of woman.

I've wanted to kill you lots of times

for the trouble that you cause her.

Why don't you grow up and stop

riding roughshod over these girls?

You've got a chance to amount to something

with a woman like Jessica behind you.

We paid Chisholm 300 a month.

We'd go to five to get you.

- Just the name Bonell is worth the extra

- Drop from line...

of bore five-eighths to eleven-sixteenths

at comb for low mounting.

Five-eighths to eleven-sixteenths.

There are worse jobs

than being city marshal.

Drop at heel between one

and one five-eighths.

One and one five-eighths.

It's time you settled down

in one place, Wes.

This is good wood for the stock.

Fiddle back grain. You don't want that.

Give me that new walnut

that just came in, Dad.

That, uh, flame grain.

This what you mean?

- Looks pretty good.

- Yeah?

- Just fine.

- First time I ever been measured for a rifle.

You've got a high cheekbone

and a low shoulder.

Gonna make trouble for you?

Nothing I can't handle.

How long will it take

to make this rifle for me?

A long time. You'll have to come in

every day for a fittin'.

Yeah?

I guess it is time I settled down.

But this town looks like any other town.

A Spanger rifle looks like any other rifle...

unless you know good work from bad.

This is pretty good work.

Never saw any better.

Yeah. This kind of rifle's

worth hangin' around for.

I never kissed a gunsmith before.

Any recoil?

Whoa!

Whoa.

I have a warrant for

one of your men, Miss Drummond.

Would you mind passing it down, please?

Mr. Connelly,

does the governor know about this?

It didn't come through

our office in Prescott.

- Judge Macy?

- It's not a local warrant.

- Is it in order?

- Yes, I think so.

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Samuel Fuller

Samuel Michael Fuller (August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997) was an American screenwriter, novelist, and film director known for low-budget, understated genre movies with controversial themes, often made outside the conventional studio system. Fuller wrote his first screenplay for Hats Off in 1936, and made his directorial debut with the Western I Shot Jesse James (1949). He would continue to direct several other Westerns and war thrillers throughout the 1950s. Fuller shifted from Westerns and war thrillers in the 1960s with his low-budget thriller Shock Corridor in 1963, followed by the neo-noir The Naked Kiss (1964). He was inactive in filmmaking for most of the 1970s, before writing and directing the war epic The Big Red One (1980), and the experimental White Dog (1982), whose screenplay he co-wrote with Curtis Hanson. more…

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