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06/24/06
Gun Crazy (1949)
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Reviews Counted: 12 Fresh: 12 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.6/10
Runtime: 87 mins
Synopsis: The forerunner of BONNIE AND CLYDE (1968) has become a cult favorite. It inspired a remake in 1992 by former music-video director Tamra Davis and an homage in Jim McBride's version of BREATHLESS (1983). Wild young couple with a love of guns (she was a trick shooter in a Wild West show) and a knack... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky, Harry Lewis
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Screenwriter: MacKinlay Kantor, Millard Kaufman
Story: MacKinlay Kantor
Producer: Maurice King
Screenwriter: Dalton Trumbo
Composer: Victor Young
Screenwriter: MacKinlay Kantor, Millard Kaufman
Story: MacKinlay Kantor
Producer: Maurice King
Screenwriter: Dalton Trumbo
Composer: Victor Young
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Seldom seen, but GREAT little film directed by Joseph H. Lewis. Cummins and Dahl are perfect as Bonnie and Clyde types.
03/08/08
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03/25/06
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07/05/04
Joseph H. Lewis transforms this ostensible B-movie distraction into a notable entry in the film noir pantheon
05/17/04
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Nobody had ever made robbery look like such a cheap, gritty thrill or so completely accompliced the viewers.
01/01/00
As film noir this hard-boiled story is much superior to the more popular and more critically acclaimed "Bonnie and Clyde."
01/01/00
Gun Crazy (1949) (aka Deadly Is the Female), the forerunner of director Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde (1967), is considered by many to be the ultimate B-movie
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