Gun Crazy

Starring: Peggy Cummins & John Dall Director: Joseph H. Lewis

DVD Features:

Audio:

• Mono - English

Description by OLDIES.com:

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.

Product Description:

The forerunner of BONNIE AND CLYDE (1968) has become a cult favorite. It inspired a remake in 1992 by former music-video director Tamra Davis and an homage in Jim McBride's version of BREATHLESS (1983). Wild young couple with a love of guns (she was a trick shooter in a Wild West show) and a knack for violence go on a spree. The camera work has a jarring immediacy and the leads have a contemporary-feeling snarling attitude.

Plot Keywords:

Action | Adventure | Film Noir | Thieves

Production Notes:

• GUN CRAZY was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1998.

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