Gun Crazy
by Joseph H. Lewis
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Actor: Anabel Shaw, Berry Kroeger, John Dall, Morris Carnovsky, Peggy CumminsDirector: Joseph H. Lewis
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-07-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Gun Crazy
Movie Review: Another Crime Story
Summary: 2 Stars
The film begins with a teenager who breaks a glass window to steal a pistol, and is caught. As a boy he killed a young chick with a BB gun. The judge is told about this boy's fascination with guns. Is it caused by the lack of a father? Bart likes to shoot guns. He needs a new environment to help him grow up. Years later he returns to town. They visit an old-time carnival, entertainment for the small towns of America. [Would OSHA allow those working conditions today?] Bart is a good shot. The clown explains how this carnival fleeces their customer. Bart learns about personal relationships. But this couple seems to be doomed because of their poor choices. After a series of robberies the police start gaining on them, and learn their names.
They want to flee the country so they plan the perfect job. Will they be always together? Their next job is at a meat packing plant. [Symbolism?] The robbers are armed and dangerous, the police will shoot to kill! But they escape to California. Their loot is traced by serial numbers, the FBI know where they are. The visit a carnival for entertainment. The police detectives are closing in. They flee to a park where they are trapped. [You can guess how this ends for them.]
Are the star actors believable as the characters they portray? Does this film seem like an unconscious parody? One advantage is the sights of by-gone carnivals. [This story was adopted from the 'Saturday Evening Post', a former literary weekly.]
Summary of Gun Crazy
When gun fancier Bart Tare sees Annie Laurie Starr's sideshow sharpshooting act he's a dead-bang goner. He and she go together as Bart ultimately says "like guns and ammunition." The two become bank robbers on the run eluding roadblocks and roaring into movie history as one of the benchmark film-noir works. Joseph H. Lewis directs this ferocious thriller selected for the National Film Registry and often cited as a forerunner to Bonnie and Clyde. Peggy Cummins and John Dall star meeting in a sexually charged carny shooting contest and soon driven by impulses of violence and arousal they don't fully understand. They're young foolish doomed - and point blank in Gun Crazy's unforgiving sights.Running Time: 87 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?ACTION/ADVENTURE UPC:?085393197124One of the most vital of all film noir pictures, Gun Crazy has more cinematic gusto and sexual heat than almost any movie of its time. It's a variation on the Bonnie and Clyde story, but with a bizarre set-up: firearms enthusiasts John Dall and Peggy Cummins (neither of whom were ever this wild again) meet as sharpshooters in a carnival, then turn to crime. The direction, by Joseph H. Lewis, is like a spray of hot lead from a gun barrel, capped by an amazing sequence--shot in one long take--of a bank robbery seen from the backseat of the getaway car. (Billy Wilder himself called up Lewis to find out how he did it.) If most film noirs trace the anxieties of postwar America, Gun Crazy goes directly to sheer madness. Trivia note: the film had a title change, to Deadly Is the Female, for its original release, whereupon it was changed back. --Robert Horton
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