7.4
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Forty Guns (1957)
Forty Guns (1957)
Overview
An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall 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.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Traditional
Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Low
Viewer Rating
7.4
Overview
An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall 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.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Traditional
Primary
The film's central conflict resolves through the establishment of law and order and individual accountability, championed by the protagonist as the solution to frontier lawlessness and unchecked power, aligning with conservative values.
This 1957 Western features traditional casting practices, with no apparent intentional race or gender swaps of established roles. The narrative maintains a neutral or positive framing of traditional identities, without incorporating explicit critiques or central DEI themes.
Secondary
Forty Guns does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative centers on conventional Western tropes, focusing on heterosexual relationships and conflicts, thus rendering the film N/A for LGBTQ+ portrayal.
The 1957 Western film 'Forty Guns' does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes within its narrative. The story focuses on a powerful female rancher and a lawman in the Old West, without exploring LGBTQ+ identities or related issues.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Forty Guns is an original film from 1957, not an adaptation of pre-existing material or a biopic. All characters were created for this specific production, meaning there are no prior canonical or historical gender baselines to compare against for a gender swap.
Forty Guns (1957) is an original Western film with fictional characters. There is no prior source material, historical record, or established canon for its characters to be compared against, thus precluding any race swaps.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.0
6.5
Critic Ratings
8.6
N/A
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