Forty Guns
The Taming of the Arizona Territory!
An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns.When a new Marshal 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.
- Director
- Samuel Fuller
- Signature
- Drama · Craft · Tension
- Worldwide
- $6,344
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An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshal 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.
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Forty Guns returned 0.0× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $300,000
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $6,344
- Release date
- Sep 10, 1957
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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