Gun Crazy

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Gun Crazy
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1hr 27min
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1949
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Warner Home Video
Synopsis: The definitive Joseph H. Lewis-directed melodrama, Gun Crazy is the "Bonnie and Clyde" story retooled for the disillusioned postwar generation. John Dall plays a timorous, emotionally disturbed World War II veteran who has had a lifelong fixation with guns. He meets a kindred spirit in carnival sharpshooter Peggy Cummins, who is equally disturbed -- but a lot smarter, and hence a lot more dangerous. Beyond their physical attraction to one another, both Dall and Cummins are obsessed with firearms. ... Full Synopsis
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While often compared to Bonnie and Clyde, which it preceded by nearly 20 years, Gun Crazy is in many ways a more daring and disturbing film; while the leads lack the skill and charisma of Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, and the picture is sometimes betrayed by its obvious low budget, director Joseph H. Lewis gives his story a subversive sexual economy that's more provocative than that of Arthur Penn's ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Annie Laurie Starr
Bart Tare
Packett
Judge Willoughby
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No outlaw queen outshines Annie Laurie Starr (Peggy Cummins) in 1950's "Gun Crazy." She's a...
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