One of the greatest of all films, this "B" movie classic has it all.
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07/05/04
Gun Crazy (1949)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:26
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.2/10
Runtime: 87 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: The forerunner of BONNIE AND CLYDE (1968) has become a cult favorite. It inspired a remake in 1992 by former music-video director Tamra Davis and an homage in Jim McBride's version of BREATHLESS... [More]
Starring: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
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Reviews for Gun Crazy
Like all great films noirs, this 1949 lovers-on-the-run thriller, directed by cultists’ darling Joseph H. Lewis (The Big Combo), is lean, mean and delirious.
02/27/09
this is a small but perfectly formed black-and-white masterpiece of flash and trash, unwholesome obsession and criminal daring.
02/27/09
Admittedly, the script is vintage corn. But visually Gun Crazy is a rude, startling and suggestive pleasure.
02/27/09
Gun Crazy (1949) (aka Deadly Is the Female), the forerunner of director Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde (1967), is considered by many to be the ultimate B-movie
01/01/00
Nobody had ever made robbery look like such a cheap, gritty thrill or so completely accompliced the viewers.
01/01/00
It's a superbly crafted film by a cult film-maker.
03/06/09
Classic film noir
08/09/07
Wild, wam-bam pacing.
06/22/04
Gun Crazy’ is a magnificently enjoyable film, distinguished by Joseph H Lewis’s restless, catch-all directorial style.
02/27/09
One of the most distinguished works of art to emerge from the B movie swamp.
04/27/09
Top CriticJoseph H. Lewis transforms this ostensible B-movie distraction into a notable entry in the film noir pantheon
05/17/04
Gun Crazy is less an exposé than a hugely exciting crime thriller. And since he's as polite as he is intelligent, Lewis doesn't beat us about the head with his philosophies.
02/27/09
...a delightfully trashy piece of Americana
08/08/02
Darker and more subtly complex than you'd expect from a 1950s crime caper.
02/27/09
Some old pulpy noir thrillers aren’t as pleasurable as the garish posters that advertised them, but this re-release gives us an example of the genre that’s every bit as brash, lusty and stylish as you could wish it to be.
03/06/09
This modest-looking B-movie, first seen in 1949, has acquired a substantial following in the years since – justifiably.
02/27/09
Nearly 20 years before the same themes powered Bonnie and Clyde, Lewis was on to the possibilities of "outsider" cinema, and his film is all the more subversive for its origins as raw pulp, unpoliced by the Hollywood system, and getting away with murder.
02/27/09
A stylish example of the doomed-lovers-on-the-run subgenre inspired by real-life outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, and one of the best B movies ever made.
07/30/03
As film noir this hard-boiled story is much superior to the more popular and more critically acclaimed "Bonnie and Clyde."
01/01/00
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