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Black-and-white crime thriller starring Peggy Cummins and John Dall as a couple on a crime spree. Co-written by Dalton Trumbo.
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Black-and-white crime thriller starring Peggy Cummins and John Dall as a couple on a crime spree. Co-written by Dalton Trumbo.
Bart Tare (Dall) is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns. He meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr (Cummins) and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired and soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash. Subjects of a manhunt, they are tracked by police in the hills Tare enjoyed as a boy.
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91 %66 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
84 %3,308 reviewsAudience score rating
"Fault is in the writing and direction, both staying on the surface and never getting underneath the characters."
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Variety
Variety"Gun Crazy' is a magnificently enjoyable film, distinguished by Joseph H Lewis's restless, catch-all directorial style."
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Time Out
Time Out"Nearly 20 years before the same themes powered Bonnie and Clyde, Lewis was on to the possibilities of "outsider" cinema, and his film is all the more subversive for its origins as raw pulp, unpoliced by the Hollywood system, and getting away with murder."
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The Telegraph
The Telegraph"The already-classic trope of lovers on the run, à la Bonnie and Clyde, gets a stylish workout from the director Joseph H. Lewis."
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker"This is a small but perfectly formed black-and-white masterpiece of flash and trash, unwholesome obsession and criminal daring."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"Darker and more subtly complex than you'd expect from a 1950s crime caper."
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Empire Magazine
Empire MagazineGun Crazy | Details
- Rating
- PG,
- Runtime
- 86
- Genre
- Drama, Romance, Thriller
- Country of origin
- USA
