When feisty Barbara
Stanwyck’s hard-as-nails, incredibly successful businesswoman is blinded by
love for the first time in her hardscrabble life, her selfish and immature
younger brother takes the opportunity to ruin her empire.
Sounds kind of
modern, right?
Well, it’s as close
to a “Douglas Sirk” film that Sam Fuller would ever come to: 1957’s Forty Guns.
But since it’s Stanwyck
and Fuller, it’s practically perfect.
