Gun Crazy (1950)

Directed by

Joseph H. Lewis

Genre

drama film, film noir, heist film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

14A

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 311 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A couple bond over their shared love for guns and crime. They go on a cross-country robbery spree that spirals out of control.

romanticdangeroustensefast-paceddoomedobsessivegrittysuspenseful

What happens

Gun Crazy (originally titled 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. The screenplay by blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo (credited to the pseudonym of Millard Kaufman) and MacKinlay Kantor was based upon a short story written by Kantor that was published in 1940 in The Saturday Evening Post. Gun Crazy is a rare example of a film that was retitled during its initial release cycle. It was titled Deadly Is the Female from the film's premiere in January 1950 until March 1950, when the King brothers changed the title to Gun Crazy to more accurately reflect the character of the film. In 1998, Gun Crazy was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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