She carved a niche for herself as a fierce, cynical frontierswoman of property in The Furies, Cattle Queen of Montana, The Maverick Queen, and Forty Guns, though love or justice typically compromised ...

An authoritarian rancher, Barbara Stanwyck, rules an Arizona county with her private posse of forty hired guns. After a new marshal arrives to set things straight, the powerful landowner finds ...

“A Lady to Talk About: The Films of Barbara Stanwyck ... through 1957’s Sam Fuller-directed “Forty Guns” -- that led to the old adage that Stanwyck was the best actress never to ...

Barbara Stanwyck, was forty-nine when she starred ... s Always Tomorrow,” and even Samuel Fuller’s Western “Forty Guns,” Around the age of fifty, Joan Crawford (born in 1905) starred ...

BARBARA STANWYCK must be one of the best represented ... (“Executive Suite”) and dominated cattle ranches (“Forty Guns”). Stanwyck died in 1990, after riding out the ’80s in prime- ...

The first time we see Jessica Drummond, who is played by Barbara Stanwyck, she's dressed in ... in contrasts that will continue throughout Forty Guns: the domineering woman who gives as good ...

Here we have Barbara Stanwyck in black, on a white stallion at the head of her 40 hired men. As lawman Barry Sullivan exclaims succinctly: "Whoa!" Shot in 11 days, in Cinemascope, this is Fuller ...