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Budget. $400,000 (1949) Gun Crazy (also known as Deadly Is the Female) [1] 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. [2] It was directed by Joseph H. Lewis, and produced by Frank and Maurice King . The screenplay by blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo ...
- John Dall
John Dall (born John Dall Thompson; May 26, 1920 – January...
- Peggy Cummins
Peggy Cummins (born Augusta Margaret Diane Fuller; 18...
- Anabel Shaw
Biography. Shaw was born Marjorie Henshaw on June 7, 1921,...
- John Dall
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.
- Joseph H. Lewis
- 2 min
Gun Crazy ★★★ Deadly Is the Female 1949. Annie Laurie Starr— Annie Oakley in a Wild West show—meets gunlovin' Bart Tare, who says a gun makes him feel good inside, “like I'm somebody.”. Sparks fly, and the two get married and live happily ever after—until the money runs out and fatal femme Laurie's craving for excitement and ...
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Synopsis. On a rainy night, fourteen-year-old Bart Tare smashes the window of a hardware store and steals a gun, but is soon caught by Sheriff Boston. At Bart's hearing, his older sister Ruby, who reared the boy by herself, assures Judge Willoughby that despite Bart's strange obsession with guns, he would never kill anything.
- Joseph H. Lewis, Frank S. Heath
- Peggy Cummins
Jun 7, 2021 · Peggy Cummins as Laurie and John Dall as Bart in Gun Crazy. Night falls, and the couple lie hiding in the tall grass of a swamp shrouded in fog, lending a dreamlike, purgatorial quality to their final moments. They are phantoms, beginning their passage into a spiritual realm. Veteran cinematographer Russell Harlan captures the duo in close-up ...
Synopsis. On a rainy night, fourteen-year-old Bart Tare smashes the window of a hardware store and steals a gun, but is soon caught by Sheriff Boston. At Bart's hearing, his older sister Ruby, who reared the boy by herself, assures Judge Willoughby that despite Bart's strange obsession with guns, he would never kill anything.
Black Pool Productions, 2015. Gun Crazy caused barely a ripple in public consciousness when it hit movie screens in 1950. Yet over time it would prove to be the most innovative and provocative motion picture of its era—a simple genre film, but packed with so much cinematic bravura and timeless symbolism, its power has spanned decades, crossed ...
