四十支枪 (1957)

Griff Bonnell and his brothers Wes and Chico arrive in an Arizona town. He is a reformed gunslinger, now working for the Attorney General's office, looking to arrest Howard Swain for mail robbery.Swain is one of landowner Jessica Drummond’s 40 hired guns. She runs the territory with an iron fist, permitting the town to be terrorized and trashed by her brother, Brockie Drummond, and his boys. Brockie is an arrogant drunk and bully, but he goes too far by shooting Marshal Chisolm in cold blood. Griff intervenes and knocks out Brockie with his pistol.Wes falls in love with Louvenie Spanger, so he decides to settle down and become the town's sheriff. Griff becomes romantically involved with Jessica after she is dragged by a horse during a cyclone.Two of her guns, Logan and Savage, attempt an ambush of Griff in an alley. He is saved by youngest brother Chico, who was supposed to be leaving for California for a new life on a farm. Chico's shot kills Savage, after which Jessica's brother and hired guns try to turn the town against the Bonnell brothers.On his wedding day, Wes is gunned down. Brockie is jailed for the murder. He tries to escape by using his sister as a shield, daring Griff to shoot, and is shocked when Griff does exactly that. Griff's expertly placed bullet merely wounds Jessica, and the cowardly Brockie then becomes the first man Griff has had to kill in 10 years.Chico remains behind to take the sheriff's job. Griff rides out, certain that Jessica hates him for killing her brother, but she runs after his buckboard and together they ride off. 2.35:1的宽画幅，拍摄人物的大量长镜头（以及新奇的枪管视角），和第一次在西部片见到的龙卷风情节（虽然它的加入本身很突兀），让整个影片十分大气，与此相对的则是三兄弟与女老大姐弟间的小格局恩怨情仇。有钱有势强硬的女老大形象有点浮于表面，最终还是回落到普通的热恋女子，“四十支枪”也更像是噱头。台词中还有许多关于西部人安定的探讨枪在肌底，有了关系就没关系，枪再没提，装不下去就装下你，四是四十是十但四十不能被这样推理，为副不仁像紊乱的经期，龙卷风压阵发出遮天而不蔽日的倡议，劈波斩浪一下数米，内心的最佳观测点设在尽管伤及，撤离了马屁，不得不爱的呼吸器罩于北鼻。“阿里妈妈与四十大盗”的译名要笑死，什么四十大盗，就是一有门路有产业的半老徐娘手下的四十个枪手，然而这四十人并没什么戏份。富勒片里西部神话体系的秩序框架几乎不可信，一方面是女头领和彪悍的四十手下（仅他们亮相时的策马场面够彪悍），另一方是在小镇短暂打工的赏金猎人三兄弟，短暂接触后俩老大爱上