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Gun Crazy
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790783208
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790783207
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: D31971D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 06, 2004
Running Time: 87 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 20, 1950
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Editorial Review:
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: 085393197124
One 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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Another Crime Story
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 ... Read More
Rating:  - Best for it's cinematography and the bank robbery scene....
I found the the cinematography and direction to be extraordinary and well above average for noir, however, when compared to the the best film noir, the acting/casting and the weak script keep this one from being a true lost classic. Check out Born Killer, Detour, or Pickup on South Street first.
Also, the bank robbery scene shot entirely from the backseat of the getaway car is everything it's cracked up to be, and then some!! Mr. Tarantino has certainly been here robbing some bones....
Rating: - A sordid cheesy thriller in noir style!
Gun Crazy starts with a young boy smashing a window in order to steal a gun. In the courtroom scene that follows we learn that the young miscreant is fascinated with guns but never uses them to kill. He just loves to shoot and is very good at it. The judge sends young Bart to juvie until he is 18.
Bart spends much of his young adult life in the army, teaching shooting. When he gets out he falls for sharp-shooter carnie Annie. She is bad through and through, and maybe a little insane. ... Read More
Rating:  - "Bart, I've been kicked around all my life, and from now on, I'm gonna start kicking back!"
Directed by Joseph `Wagon Wheel Joe' Lewis (The Big Combo, Terror in a Texas Town), his nickname apparently derived from the early days in his career when he shot mostly westerners, Gun Crazy (1949) aka Deadly Is the Female stars John Dall (Rope, The Man Who Cheated Himself) and Peggy Cummins (Night of the Demon, Carry on Admiral) as a couple of young, impulsive individuals whose common passions (for each other and guns) take them on an exciting, and ultimately dangerous journey from which there is no return. ... Read More
Rating: - "It's just that some guys are born smart about women and some guys are born dumb."
Ehh this film had its moments - the bank robbery, the meat packing plant robbery - but between those moments I got bored. Then again I get bored pretty easily so it might not have been entirely the movie's fault...naw, I thought about it and it is the movie's fault.
Bart has had an addiction to guns all his life, not in an evil I gotta kill everybody I see kind of way he just likes them and he's a good shot. After a stint in the military Bart comes home and his buddies take him out on the town. ... Read More
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