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GUN CRAZY
U.S., 1950
Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo, MacKinlay Kantor, Millard Kaufman
Starring Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Anabel Shaw
Approx. 86 min. 35mm.
A bank robbery shot from inside the getaway car in a single take highlights Lewis’ startling Bonnie and Clyde-type sleeper, as vicious carny girl Peggy Cummins leads good-hearted gun buff John Dall into a life of crime.
Reviews
“The most exciting, dynamic and influential Noir movie ever made.”
– Eddie Muller
“Among [the film’s] triumphs: a pair of object-hungry young marrieds fondling pressure cookers in a department store and shivering orgiastically while a hold-up goes on.”
– Wallace Markfield, The New York Times
“Lewis is firing on all cylinders, prompting his leads to a very real evocation of amour fou… Far more energetic than BONNIE AND CLYDE — the most famous of its many progeny — its intensity borders on the subversive and surreal.”
– Time Out (London)