Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

elvircorhodzic GUN CRAZY is quite modest noir fiction that at the end gives a good result. Young people obsessed with guns meet each other their soul mate. The obsession in the film can be interpreted differently, but it is in direct affect on characterization. I have a feeling that this obsession complements. Fear is a very important factor also. Romance is a little wild, but perfectly fits the atmosphere of the film. The scenario is the strongest segment.The common passion for guns leads to armed robbery. I can not help feeling that a couple in love in this film has nothing in common except insane passion. Dialogues are good. Photography is very good. The director has faced a low budget and can see a lot of innovation and excellent technique. The scene of last robbery was memorable because it was taken in a single shot. The final scene is excellent also.Peggy Cummins as Annie Laurie Starr she is a progressive type who bites in every scene. The character who kills out of fear. It is full of some unrest. John Dall as Bart Tare is totally different. At times I had the feeling that he was robbing out the love of a woman. The character who has a phobia of murder. They are not worthy of admiration, but are very interesting. Characters that are characterized by unusual psychopathology and crazy love. All in all, a good and dynamic fiction.

higherall7 This is a great date movie! Peggy Cummins looks like one of those Kirby inspired female characters straight out of Marvel Comics. She is a knockout in her Cowgirl costume at the beginning of the film. A cross between a Comic Book Heroine and a pinup out of a girlie magazine. A woman conjured up out of every adolescent boy's wishful thinking and nascent sexual fantasies. Playing Annie Laurie Starr she is as much a girl woman as her counterpart is a boy man. A once in a lifetime opportunity for the right fellow. John Dall as Bart Tare, despite his aversion for killing any living thing, is her match as an expert marksman and it is on this basis that their romance begins. I must say that it is the way their relationship commences in a display of skill that puts this film head and shoulders about other love stories based primarily on sexual heat. Even though the physical attraction is evidently there between Annie and Bart, he wins her company because of his ability with guns more than his looks. Otherwise, he would be just the same as the other yokels, carrying a torch for a woman he cannot have. The fact that they are both expert at the same thing suggests an excellent basis for a relationship, and there is the sense that this romance could just as easily evolve into a positive rather than a negative one.During the course of the narrative, however, we are led to see that their skill with guns is about the only thing fully ripened in their personalities. It is their inability to handle money or work hard towards appropriate career paths for their talents that reveals their immaturity in other areas of Life. Bart would like to use his talents to work for Remington in some capacity handling and testing new models of guns and weaponry. One can easily envision him doing this. But Annie wants the luxurious and glamorous life. She wants it now and she wants it to come easy. Bart finds her too beautiful to refuse, and his feelings for her override any moral reaction he may have concerning the virtue of her intentions in polite society. Annie presents him with an ultimatum, he can become a career criminal with her or find someone else. Bart chooses her and a life of crime, but insists on no killing and only until they can get back on their feet into a more legal line of work.This film is considered by some reviewers here as a precursor to BONNIE AND CLYDE. Personally, I prefer it to Bonnie and Clyde. It is excellent Film noir and these characters have more substance to them. Especially Bart Tare, who has a compelling back story presented in flashbacks during the beginning of the narrative. I wish Annie Laurie Starr had been given a few scenes of back story as well, however fleeting, to suggest an explanation for her more murderous impulses and sharply developed killer instinct which is in distinct contrast to Bart Tare's distaste for killing.I also do not buy the idea that Annie was 'bad to the bone', or 'rotten to the core'. Rather that someone in Life drilled or beat this idea into her until she accepted it and found to her dismay she could not prove otherwise. Neither she or Bart Tare come across as essentially bad people given to sadism and cruelty simply for the pleasure of it. Rather they come across as personalities not fully developed and willing to do anything to come out of their poverty of character into the affluent lifestyle that Annie desperately craves and Bart would like to achieve through more reasonable and legal means.That their love demonstrates the inchoate nature of their relationship and lack of moral strength is the basis for their tragedy and ultimate downfall. This, despite a charming and romantic beginning filled with superficially glamorous possibilities.

PimpinAinttEasy Dear Joseph.H.Lewis, you are a pretty good director. Gun Crazy begins with a boy getting caught after stealing a gun. The subsequent scene at the court house is riveting with multiple flashbacks as various characters vouch for the boy's basic good nature. This is narrated through flashbacks. A lot happens in the first 30 minutes itself including the boy coming out of jail as a grown up man (John Dall). But the shooting competition where he runs into the femme fatale (Peggy Cummins, who gets a terrific entry scene where she shoots into the screen) could have been shot and edited better. It was such a great idea where their mating dance happens during a shooting competition in which they are the competitors. The lack of interesting camera angles and discreet use of close ups makes the scene quite dull. What happened, Joseph? The hero's law abiding sister is used to show the contrast between the thrilling life of the protagonists and the mundane life of the housewife. Peggy Cummins is awesome as the materialistic femme fatale. The character's craziness really comes through in the final scenes of the film shot in a smoky swamp (probably a studio). The rather square looking John Dall might have been chosen as the male lead to emphasize Cummins' manipulative nature. The film had some great ideas. The story and the two main characters are fantastic. But I don't think you realized its true potential, Joseph. It certainly deserves a re-imagination with a better writer. I cannot believe it has not been remade. Best Regards, Pimpin. (7/10)

Michael O'Keefe 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.