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Images Journal calls it "one of the wildest and most exciting Westerns of the 1950s." Slant Magazine describes it as "a magnificent B western". Rotten Tomatoes has a critics score of 100%.
Senses of Cinema concludes,
Forty Guns is an exemplary film in many ways. It reveals a filmmaker ahead of his time who pioneered techniques which were appropriated by acclaimed art movie directors while Fuller himself is still regarded as a B-movie director. Fuller’s comments on violence and politics in American society are stated subtly within the image, never didactically bombarding the audience into insensibility but leaving them to consider the implications for themselves. ...
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It sounds like a good western. I'll take time to view it (if it will run on my outdated Adobe Flash) once I have a few minutes. Thanks for reviewing it. Any time Rotten Tomatoes give a fresh score of 100%, it must be good.
ReplyDeleteIt gets good reviews, that's for sure. I'm surprised I'd never heard of it.
DeleteI did watch it while I worked on cards this afternoon and it was better than some of them. Cowboy romance--hehe! Loved the beginning! :)
ReplyDeleteI also like watching these kinds of movies while I'm doing something else. :)
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