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Gun Crazy (also known as Deadly Is the Female) is a 1950 American crime film noir starring Peggy Cummins and John Dall in a story about the crime-spree of a gun-toting husband and wife. It was directed by Joseph H. Lewis, and produced by Frank and Maurice King.
Gun Crazy: Directed by Joseph H. Lewis. With Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky. Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.
In Cashville, the boy Bart Tare steals a gun from a hardware store and during his trial, his sister Ruby and his best friends Dave and Clyde testimonies to Judge Willoughby disclose that Bart has always loved guns. Further, he is a skilled shooter but incapable to shoot a living being.
Gun Crazy is one of several films generally considered to be based on the lives and legends of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, the notorious bank-robbing couple of the 1930s who met their death together in a hail of bullets after eluding law enforcement for several years.
May 19, 2020 · Gun Crazy (also known as Deadly Is the Female) is a 1950 American Film Noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis, and produced by Frank King and Maurice King. The production features Peggy Cummins and John Dall in a story about the crime-spree of a gun-toting husband and wife.
When gun-obsessed pacifist Bart Tare (John Dall) witnesses expert shooter Annie Laurie Starr (Peggy Cummins) demonstrate her firearm prowess at a carnival one night,...
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Gun Crazy. 1950 · 1 hr 28 min. TV-PG. Crime · Drama. A gun-loving, sharp-shooting couple embarks on a crime spree. The two rob banks and outrun the law until one of them starts having second thoughts.
"Gun Crazy is a cinematic jolt of mad love and obsessive violence that can still amaze and move, and now there is a book worthy of it. In an irresistibly gripping and constantly enlightening narrative, Eddie Muller guides us along the winding paths that led to this one-of-a-kind masterpiece, uncovering the many hidden dramas of the filmmaking ...
Sep 25, 2023 · Directed by Joseph H. Lewis and written by the HUAC blacklisted Dalton Trumbo (under a pseudonym), the screenplay is propelled by an incredible control of craft. Gun Crazy opens on a rainy night, where a gun displayed in a shop seduces young orphan Barton ‘Bart’ Tare (Russ Tamblyn).
Jun 7, 2014 · Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.