Monday, October 22, 2007

Forty Guns (1957)


Forty Guns (1957)
DVDRip | Language: English | Subtitles: Spanish, French & Portuguese (.srt)
XviD 720x304 (2.21:1) | 95 min | 25.0 fps | 128 kbps | 734 Mb
Genre: Western | RS.com

Forty Guns, a magnificent B-western shot in a little over a week, features Sam Fuller's punchy combination of crazy vulgarities and keen psychological insights; it's one of his best films. (Slant Magazine)




D’une modernité frappante, presque cinquante ans après sa sortie, de part son sujet et son style qui n’a aucunement vieilli, cette oeuvre se pose comme un trait d’union idéal, une espèce de passage de flambeau entre âge d’or Hollywoodien et "Nouvelle Vague", signe de la vitalité inépuisable de notre art préféré.


Why hasn't this 1957 Sam Fuller frontier epic—his most ludicrously passionate, faux-muscular, putting-the-whip-back-into-pistol-whip pulp western—been transformed into a Broadway musical? Husky, middle-aged, platinum-perm Barbara Stanwyck lords over the range with a small army of criminal lackeys and goes hips-first for unflappable super-lawman Barry Sullivan, as the townspeople convene in public bubble baths and dodge gunfight ricochets—if the movie is unrecognized as diesel-powered camp, perhaps it's because Fuller's ironic-yet-sincere vulgarianism is still hard to pigeonhole. In any case, this ferociously hormonal oater stands beside Johnny Guitar and Rancho Notorious in the annals of hyper-feminized genre freaks.










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