Review of Gun Crazy

Gun Crazy (1950)
6/10
Happiness Is A Warm Gun! Bang! Bang! Shoot! Shoot!
9 July 2015
Warning: Spoilers
Yep. He's crazy. She's crazy. Crazy. Crazy. Crazy... And, when it comes to the likes of firearms, they're both a couple of thrill crazy, kill crazy, gun crazies.

Yep. Crazy. Crazy. Crazy.

Released in 1949 - Gun Crazy (a.k.a. Deadly Is The Female) is the 'Bonnie and Clyde' story retooled for the disillusioned postwar generation. This flick is considered by many movie-connoisseurs to be the ultimate B-Movie Extraordinaire - Where shades of Film Noir abound like fireflies.

Gun Crazy's fast-paced story is jet-propelled along by numerous stick-ups, a dominant femme fatale, an erotic love and obsession for guns, and a deadly sexual attraction between 2 trigger-happy sharp-shooters who quite willingly substitute violent gunplay for sex.

This low-budget, stylistic film stars 2 unknown leads (Peggy Cummings and John Dall) as a pair of crazy, itchy-fingered criminals on a frantic cross-country run from the law.

As socio-pathic as a duo could possibly get back in a 1940's film, characters Annie Starr and Bart Tare accidentally meet up one day and 'before-you-know-it' go on the ultimate date of a life-time. Their un-Cinderella like romance includes a crazy, high-energy robbery/shooting spree that, once the law catches up with them, inevitably leads to their sensationalistic deaths.

Tsk. Tsk. Those crazy, crazy kids. And, it's all because - Happiness Is a Warm Gun. Yes, it is. Bang-Bang. Shoot-Shoot.
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