Gun Crazy
Gun Crazy (also known as Deadly Is the Female) is a 1950 American crime film noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis, and produced by Frank King and Maurice King. The production features Peggy Cummins and John Dall in a story about the crime-spree of a gun-toting husband and wife.
Plot
At the age of fourteen, Bart Tare botches a burglary of a hardware store to steal a gun and gets caught. He is sent to reform school by a sympathetic Judge Willoughby, despite the testimony of his friends Dave and Clyde, his older sister Ruby and others, that he would never kill any living creature, even though he has had a fascination with guns even as a child. Flashbacks provide a portrait of Bart who, after he kills a young chick with a BB gun at age seven, is hesitant to harm anyone with guns even though he is a good shot with a pistol.
Awards
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author | Dalton Trumbo MacKinlay Kantor |
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award | National Film Registry |
director | Joseph H. Lewis |
editor | Harry Gerstad |
genre | crime thriller |
keywords | bb gun burglar alarm camp dance hall dragnet drive flee force gas station getaway car hardware store kill life of crime married morning national news news reporter old friend older sister police dog read reed reed grass reform school security guard surround teach travel |
musicBy | Victor Young |
producer | Frank King Maurice King |
productionCompany | King Brothers Productions |
publisher | United Artists |
theme | film noir heist noir |