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Director:
Writers (WGA):
MacKinlay Kantor (screenplay) and
Dalton Trumbo (screenplay) (front Millard Kaufman) ...
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Release Date:
20 January 1950 (USA) more
Tagline:
SHE BELIEVES IN TWO THINGS...-love and violence! (original poster) more
Plot:
Since he was a child, Bart Tare has always loved guns. After leaving the army, his friends take him to a carnival... more | full synopsis
Awards:
1 win more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
'Borderlands' Class Guide: The Hunter
(From MTV Multiplayer. 15 September 2009, 10:00 AM, PDT)
Gun Crazy at 60: Pistol-Packing Anti-Heroine Peggy Cummins Looks Back
(From Movieline. 13 August 2009, 8:30 AM, PDT)
User Comments:
A Bad Woman Can Ruin You! more (40 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Peggy Cummins | ... | Annie Laurie Starr | |
| John Dall | ... | Bart Tare | |
| Berry Kroeger | ... | Packett | |
| Morris Carnovsky | ... | Judge Willoughby | |
| Anabel Shaw | ... | Ruby Tare | |
| Harry Lewis | ... | Deputy Clyde Boston | |
| Nedrick Young | ... | Dave Allister | |
| Trevor Bardette | ... | Sheriff Boston | |
| Mickey Little | ... | Bart Tare (age 7) | |
| Russ Tamblyn | ... | Bart Tare (age 14) (as Rusty Tamblyn) | |
| Paul Frison | ... | Clyde Boston (age 14) | |
| David Bair | ... | Dave Allister (age 7) (as Dave Bair) | |
| Stanley Prager | ... | Bluey-Bluey | |
| Virginia Farmer | ... | Miss Wynn | |
| Anne O'Neal | ... | Miss Augustine Sifert |
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Also Known As:
Gun Crazy (USA) (new title)
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Runtime:
86 min
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1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Iceland:L | Canada:14A (Ontario) | USA:Approved (certificate #14023) | West Germany:16 (nf) | UK:PG (2008) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:(Banned)
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The movie's poster was as #25 of "The 25 Best Movie Posters Ever" by Premiere. more
Goofs:
Continuity: Cadillac stolen from Illinois man that was used in bank holdup (featuring the single take) had a silver ashtray at the top backside of the front seat for rear seat passengers to use (and visible when car first seen at hitch-hiker pickup) but in the holdup scene it is gone. more
Quotes:
Annie Laurie Starr: Come on, Bart, let's finish it the way we started it: on the level. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in La sirène du Mississipi (1969) more
Soundtrack:
Mad About You more
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I had heard a lot about this when I first discovered "film noir," and I was not disappointed. It was very entertaining. I still enjoy watching this periodically, even after a half-dozen viewings.
John Dall and Peggy Cummins make one of the more interesting male-female pairings I've ever seen on film. Cummins is one of the prettiest women I've seen from the noir era and fascinating to view throughout this movie. I'm sorry her other films aren't on video. She didn't do many movies in the U.S.
The character Dall plays is good, too, although in the end his constant whining over the predicament he got into gets a little annoying. He plays the nice guy who is led astray by the bad woman. Yes, another classic example of the old Rabbinic saying that "a bad woman will always drag down a good man."
Innovative camera-work also make this fun to watch. At just under an hour-and- a-half, this is a fast-moving, always-entertaining film noir that lives up to its hype.