Forty Guns 1957 original vintage lobby card on heavy card stock. 11x14 inches. "Forty Guns" is a 1957 American western film written and directed by Samuel Fuller, filmed in black-and-white CinemaScope, and released by the 20th Century Fox studio. The film stars Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, and Gene Barry. Movie lobby cards are a uniquely American creation. They are a hybrid of movie posters and, usually, movie star photos. Back in the early 1910s, the small nickelodeons, where films were first shown, started morphing into larger, more permanent, and more elegant venues.