Gun Crazy (originally titled Deadly Is the Female) 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 (credited to the pseudonym of Millard Kaufman) and MacKinlay Kantor was based upon a short story written by Kantor that was published in 1940 in The Saturday Evening Post.

Plot

Teenager Barton "Bart" Tare is caught breaking a hardware-store window to steal a gun. He is sent to reform school for four years despite the supportive testimony of his friends Dave and Clyde, his older sister Ruby and others. They claim that he would never kill any living creature, even though he has had a lifelong fascination with guns. After killing a young chick with a BB gun at age seven, he became hesitant to shoot at anything living, even a mountain lion with a bounty on its head.