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When gun fancier Bart Tare sees Annie Laurie Starr's sideshow sharpshooting act, he's a dead-bang goner. He and she go together, as Bart ultimately says, "like guns and ammunition." The two become bank robbers on the run, eluding roadblocks and roaring into movie history as one of the benchmark film-noir works.
Joseph H. Lewis directs this ferocious thriller selected for the National Film Registry and often cited as a forerunner to Bonnie and Clyde. Peggy Cummins and John Dall star, meeting in a sexually charged carny shooting contest and soon driven by impulses of violence and arousal they don't fully understand. They're young, foolish, doomed—and point blank in Gun Crazy's unforgiving sights.
Original Release
01/20/1950
US Release
01/20/1950
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Peggy Cummins | Annie Laurie Starr |
John Dall | Bart Tare |
Berry Kroeger | Packett |
Morris Carnovsky | Judge Willoughby |
Anabel Shaw | Ruby Tare Flagler / Ruby Tare |
Harry Lewis | Deputy Clyde Boston / Sheriff Clyde Boston |
Nedrick Young | Dave Allister |
Trevor Bardette | Sheriff Boston |
Mickey Little | Bart Tare (age 7) |
Russ Tamblyn | Bart Tare (age 14) |
Directors
Writers
MacKinlay Kantor, Millard Kaufman, Dalton Trumbo
Cast
Name | Character |
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Peggy Cummins | Annie Laurie Starr |
John Dall | Bart Tare |
Berry Kroeger | Packett |
Morris Carnovsky | Judge Willoughby |
Anabel Shaw | Ruby Tare Flagler / Ruby Tare |
Harry Lewis | Deputy Clyde Boston / Sheriff Clyde Boston |
Nedrick Young | Dave Allister |
Trevor Bardette | Sheriff Boston |
Mickey Little | Bart Tare (age 7) |
Russ Tamblyn | Bart Tare (age 14) |
Paul Frison | Clyde Boston (age 14) |
David Bair | Dave Allister (child) / Dave Allister (age 7) |
Stanley Prager | Bluey-Bluey |
Virginia Farmer | Miss Wynn |
Anne O'Neal | Miss Augustine Sifert |
Frances Irvin | Danceland Singer |
Robert Osterloh | Hampton Policeman |
Shimen Ruskin | Cab Driver / Can Driver |
Harry Hayden | Mr. Mallenberg |
Tony Barr | Proprietor / Diner Cook |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Frank King | Producer |
Maurice King | Producer |