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Gun Crazy (1950)

NR 01/20/1950 (US) Crime, Thriller, Romance 1h 27m

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Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.

MacKinlay Kantor

Screenplay, Story
Joseph H. Lewis

Director
Dalton Trumbo

Screenplay
Millard Kaufman

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John Dall

Bart Tare
Peggy Cummins

Annie Laurie Starr
Berry Kroeger

Packett
Morris Carnovsky

Judge Willoughby
Anabel Shaw

Ruby Tare
Harry Lewis

Sheriff Clyde Boston
Nedrick Young

Dave Allister
Russ Tamblyn

Bart Tare (age 14)
Trevor Bardette

Sheriff Boston (uncredited)
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A review by John Chard

90%

Written by John Chard on June 7, 2014

The Real Sex Pistols.

Bart Tare (John Dall) had a fascination with guns from an early age, even getting sent to a reform school at the age of 14 for yet another gun related incident. Back home now as an adult, after a stint in the army, he falls for a sharp-shooting carnival girl called Annie Laurie Starr (Peggy Cummins) and promptly joins the act. But after a fall out with the boss, the pair hit the road and turn to a life of crime - with Annie particularly showing a thirst for gun-play.

No doubt inspired by real life outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, "Deadly Is the Female" (AKA: G... read the rest.

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