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When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

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***SPOILERS*** I'm not sure about the spoilers, given as many reviews that have gone before me; what the hey... The first time I saw this was when I was a kid - on the late late show (compared to today, it was tame; about midnight); I remember something just made me uncomfortable. It took quite a while to figure out (I don't think it showed for another twenty five years) what it was. I'll break it now - - It's the concept of Annie Oakley and Frank Butler gone bad. I mean, the what-ifs are a nasty possibility of two expert sharpshooters loose with little conscience. Still pretty spooky, ain't it? Annie Get Your Gun, indeed. deranged murderers as a musical?... It's a 10. p.s. the girl was really sexy; a MUST for a noir film.

I discovered Gun Crazy around 1985, I was twenty and was fan of film noirs, having seen all the classics in the Action theaters in Paris. And then appears that incredible Gun Crazy. At that time, I studied Cinema in university, having a B movie section, and Gun Crazy was the main movie studied.Gun Crazy is well remembered for being a Bonnie and Clyde story with the hold-up shot in long take. In fact, there are a lot of sequences brilliantly shot, especially another hold-up or the kid shooting sequence. The director Joseph H. Lewis was a master in shooting sequences in long takes placing the camera at the heart of the action, see the virtuoso intro in "The Undercover Man". But he never achieved any more masterpieces than "Gun Crazy" and "The Big Combo". Too bad. The rebel lovers are played by Peggy Cummins and John Dall, their meeting is unforgettable : as J. H. Lewis says in an interview, "you are like dogs in heat".The french DVD box of Gun Crazy is outstanding, with the book written by Eddie Muller, telling the origins and the shooting of that cult movie with lot of rare pictures and documents. And explaining the difference of the titles "Gun Crazy" and "Deadly is the Female", as well as on the posters, the "Gun Crazy" poster being more wild than the "Deadly is the Female" too classic.I saw the movie "Persons In Hiding" with a story close to Bonnie and Clyde. Patricia Morison is terrific as a strong, nasty and sexy woman like Peggy Cummins in "Gun Crazy". Hold-up scenes are shot and edited in the same style than later in "Gun Crazy" (but there isn't the long take hold up). And we hear twice the expression "gun crazy". That movie is from 1939, the novel "Gun Crazy" was written in 1940.For me, "Gun Crazy", with its special characters played by inspired casting and shot masterfully by Joseph H. Lewis, is one of the very best in Film Noir. Far more better than many other cult classics.

In this "white-trash-meets-white-trash" picture, I found its most shocking (and, at the same time, most unintentionally hilarious) scene of all was when (as a 12-year-old, gun-crazy, delinquent) Bart Tare guns down (are you ready for this?) a cute, baby chick. I mean, you really have to see this scene (in all of its preposterous over-dramatization) to know what I'm talking about here. But, believe me, it's a hoot! One of Gun Crazy's biggest problems was that, every step of the way, the viewer could clearly see exactly where its story was going. So, that, in turn, rendered its climatic, final showdown as being nothing but a complete and total let-down.Another thing that didn't impress me much about Gun Crazy was its two light-weight, lead actors, Peggy Cummins and John Dall. Yeah. OK. The element of sleaziness was definitely there - But, on the whole, any genuine, gun-lusting chemistry between this trashy dynamic duo clearly missed the mark, in the long run.

Joseph H. Lewis directs this tale of a gun-obsessed twosome. Bart Tare(John Dall)is attracted to guns as a child and ends up stealing one. He loves shooting at targets and not wanting to harm a living thing. But his gun play will end up having him put in reform school. He serves his time and as a young adult, he meets a beautiful sharpshooter Laurie Starr(Peggy Cummins)at a carnival. The two gun freaks run off to get married and then commit a string of daring robberies across the country. The money is good; but the blonde babe with a gun is more obsessed with killing. The couple find themselves in over their heads and forced to stay on the lam. The talk of splitting up and going separate ways just doesn't pan out. It seems only just that Bart and Laurie be together forever. Stark and more than a bit brutal for its time. The beautiful Cummins dominates each scene she is in. Cinematography is marvelous and stunning. Film Noir worth watching more than once.Other players: Berry Kroeger, Trevor Bardette, Harry Lewis, Anabel Shaw, Stanley Prager and a young Russ Tamblyn.