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Directed By
Joseph H. Lewis
Written By:
Dalton Trumbo
Cast:
Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky, Anabel Shaw, Nedrick Young, Trevor Bardette, Russ Tamblyn, Harry Lewis, Stanley Prager, Don Beddoe, Robert Osterloh, Harry Hayden, Virginia Farmer, Shimen Ruskin, Anne O'Neal, Mickey Little, Paul Frison, Dave Bair, Anne O'Neal, Frances Irwin
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Gun Crazy (1949)
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HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN. BANG-BANG. SHOOT-SHOOT.
Yep.
He's crazy. She's crazy.
Crazy. Crazy. Crazy.
And, when it comes to the likes of firearms, they're both a couple of thrill crazy, kill crazy, gun crazies.
Yep. Crazy. Crazy. Crazy.
Released in 1949 - GUN CRAZY (a.k.a. DEADLY IS THE FEMALE) is the 'Bonnie and Clyde' story retooled for the disillusioned postwar generation. This flick is considered by many movie-connoisseurs to be the ultimate B-Movie Extraordinaire - Where shades of Film Noir abound like fireflies.
GUN CRAZY's fast-paced story is jet-propelled along be numerous stick-ups, a dominant femme fatale, an erotic love and obsession for guns, and a deadly sexual attraction between 2 trigger-happy sharp-shooters who quite willingly substitute violent gunplay for sex.
This low-budget, stylistic film stars 2 unknown leads (PEGGY c*mMINS (!?) and JOHN DALL) as a pair of crazy, itchy-fingered criminals on a frantic cross-country run from the law.
As sociopathic as a duo could possibly get back in a 1940's film, characters Annie Starr and Bart Tare accidentally meet up one day and 'before-you-know-it' go on the ultimate date of a life-time. Their un-Cinderella like romance includes a crazy, high-energy robbery/shooting spree that, once the law catches up with them, inevitably leads to their sensationalistic deaths.
Tsk. Tsk. Those crazy, crazy kids.
And, it's all because - Happiness Is a Warm Gun. Yes, it is.
Bang-Bang. Shoot-Shoot.
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