Gun Crazy

Gun Crazy (1950)

Thrill Crazy... Kill Crazy... Gun Crazy

Bart Tare, an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival alongside her. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, at Starr's behest, the couple embarks on a crime spree for cash.

Date of release
1950-01-20
TMDB
7.4 / 10 (319)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Crime, Romance, Drama
Director
Joseph H. Lewis

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $400K

Gun Crazy is a 1950 American crime film noir starring Peggy Cummins and John Dall in a story about the crime spree of a gun-toting husband and wife. It was directed by Joseph H. Lewis and produced by Frank and Maurice King. The screenplay by blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo and MacKinlay Kantor was based upon a short story written by Kantor that was published in 1940 in The Saturday Evening Post.

Production

The screenplay was credited to Kantor and Millard Kaufman; however, Kaufman was a front for Hollywood Ten outcast Dalton Trumbo, who considerably reworked the story into a doomed love affair.

The King brothers originally announced that they had wanted Veronica Lake for the lead.

The film was budgeted at $400,000, and principal photography took 30 days. It was originally slated to be released by Monogram Studios, but King Brothers Productions chose United Artists as the distributor, affording the film wider exposure.

The bank-heist sequence was shot entirely in one long take in Montrose, California, with no one except the principal actors and people inside the bank alerted to the operation. The shot includes the sequence of driving into town to the bank, distracting and then incapacitating a patrolman and effecting a getaway.

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