Gun Crazy

Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Genre: Film noir, Thriller, Black-and-white, Crime Fiction, Crime Thriller, Indie, Drama
Year: 1949
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger, Mickey Little, Russ Tamblyn, Nedrick Young, Anabel Shaw, Morris Carnovsky, Trevor Bardette, Harry Lewis

Gun Crazy is a 1950 film noir feature film starring Peggy Cummins and John Dall in a story about the crime-spree of a gun-toting husband and wife. The film was directed by Joseph H. Lewis, and produced by Frank King and Maurice King. The screenplay by Dalton Trumbo (credited to Millard Kaufman because of the Hollywood Blacklist), and MacKinlay Kantor was based upon a short story by Kantor published in 1940 in The Saturday Evening Post. Gun Crazy was selected for the National Film Registry, and is also known as Deadly Is the Female.(1950)

Bart Tare (John Dall) is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns—they make him feel good inside. The drama opens with Tare, age 14, being grilled by a judge because he had been arrested for breaking and entering and stealing a gun. In flashbacks his friends say that while it's true that Tare loves guns, he would never kill anything. They tell the judge the number of times he's refused to kill animals. Nevertheless the judge sends him to reform school.

The next time we see Tare, he's grown up and back in town. He's also left military service behind. He reunites with his childhood friends and they decide to go to a carnival.

There he

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