Gun Crazy
Studio: King Brothers Productions, Pioneer Pictures
Starring: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Harry Lewis
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Writer: Dalton Trumbo, MacKinlay Kantor
Producer: Frank King, Maurice King
Gun Crazy (originally titled Deadly Is the Female) is a 1950 American crime film noir starring Peggy Cummins and John Dall in a story about the crime spree of a gun-toting husband and wife. It was directed by Joseph H. Lewis and produced by Frank and Maurice King.
Trivia
- The screenplay was credited to Kantor and Millard Kaufman; however, Kaufman was a front for Hollywood Ten outcast Dalton Trumbo, who considerably reworked the story into a doomed love affair.
- The King brothers originally announced that they had wanted Veronica Lake for the lead.
- Lewis kept the onscreen conversations fresh by having the actors improvise their dialogue.
Filming Locations
- The bank-heist sequence was shot entirely in one long take in Montrose, California, with no one except the principal actors and people inside the bank alerted to the operation.
Previous Showings
6 Runs • 5 Festivals
5,309 tickets sold
All runs on record (6):
- January 30 - February 2, 1997 · 1,243 ticketsw/ Weekend in Havana, They Live by Night
- November 13 - 15, 2002 · 375 ticketsFall Folliesw/ Scarlet Street
- April 11 - 13, 2007 · 636 ticketsFilm Noir, Val Lewton, 1930s musicals and more!w/ This Gun for Hire
- May 1 - 4, 2010 · 1,018 ticketsSpring 2010w/ Gilda
- November 7 - 10, 2013 · 1,307 ticketsThe Best of Bogart and Film Noir Classicsw/ In a Lonely Place
- September 21 - 22, 2024 · 730 ticketsFilm Noir plus Val Lewtonw/ Scarlet Street