Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- John DallBart Tare
- Peggy CumminsAnnie Laurie Starr
- Berry KroegerPackett
- Morris CarnovskyJudge Willoughby
- Anabel ShawRuby Tare
- Harry LewisSheriff Clyde Boston
- Nedrick YoungDave Allister
- Russ TamblynBart Tare (age 14)
- Trevor BardetteSheriff Boston (uncredited)
- Anne O'NealMiss Augustine Sifert (uncredited)
Recommendations
- 90
The Guardian
It's a superbly crafted film by a cult film-maker and features a virtuoso bank robbery sequence shot in a single take from a camera in the back seat of a car. - 90
The New Yorker
It’s a strikingly modern, complex, disturbing, and yet sad, touching, and romantic film. - 88
Chicago Reader
Lewis's long takes and sure command of film noir staples (shadows, fog, rain-soaked streets) make this a stunning technical achievement, but it's something more--a gangster film that explores the limits of the form with feeling and responsibility. - 83
The A.V. Club
Joseph H. Lewis’ kinetic, psychosexual B-movie laid many of the creative foundations of the American cinema of the 1970s, though it took a round trip to Europe for the movie to develop a reputation at home. - 83
IndieWire
It’s a B-film with a heart of gold, even if that heart was probably stolen. - 80
Time Out
Gun Crazy is a magnificently enjoyable film, distinguished by Joseph H Lewis’s restless, catch-all directorial style. - 80
Empire
Darker and more subtly complex than you'd expect from a 1950s crime caper. - 63
Slant Magazine
Lewis, through sheer force of will, turns the script’s easy ways out into the essence of blunt, adolescent sexual flowering.
