{"id":37782,"date":"2024-11-27T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37782"},"modified":"2024-11-27T07:47:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T12:47:00","slug":"gun-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37782","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Gun Crazy&#8221; (1950) directed by Joseph H. Lewis, starring Peggy Cummins &amp; John Dall \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z112724zview_guncrazy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"757\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Gun Crazy <\/i>(1950)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: \u00a0<strong>Joseph H. Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Dalton Trumbo, MacKinlay Kantor\u00a0<\/strong>based on <em>Gun Crazy<\/em> a 1940 story in The Saturday Evening Post by <strong>MacKinlay Kantor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>John Dall, Peggy Cummins, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky, Harry Lewis, Nedrick Young, Trevor Bardette, Virginia Farmer, Robert Osterloh, Shimen Ruskin, Ray Teal <\/strong>and <strong>Russ Tamblyn.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>SHE BELIEVES IN TWO THINGS&#8230; &#8211; love and violence! <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bart Tare (Dall) has always had a fascination with guns.\u00a0 Bart is a crack shot and even taught marksmanship in the service.\u00a0 One night at a traveling carnival with friends, Bart is encouraged to accept a challenge from sharpshooter Annie Laurie Starr (Cummins).\u00a0 Even though she&#8217;s really good, Bart wins the contest.\u00a0 But Laurie wins Bart&#8217;s heart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Laurie gets Bart a job with the carnival.\u00a0 They fall in love and marry.\u00a0 Laurie wants more than the sideshow life can provide.\u00a0 She convinces Bart they should use their gun skills to rob enough places to live the good life.\u00a0 When Laurie threatens to leave Bart, he agrees as long as no one gets hurt.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a promise she can&#8217;t keep.\u00a0 She&#8217;s gun crazy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bank robbery scene was shot in one take.\u00a0 Dall, Cummins, the actor playing the police officer and the people inside the bank knew the scene was being filmed.\u00a0 At no time during the scene do we see the inside of the bank.\u00a0 That was a bold move for the director to make.\u00a0 It works!<\/p>\n<p>Dalton Trumbo was listed in the credits since he was a blacklisted writer at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Bart and Laurie are loosely based on Bonnie and Clyde.<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate <em>Gun Crazy<\/em> more with each viewing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong><i>Gun Crazy <\/i>(1950)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z112724zview_guncrazy2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"363\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gun Crazy (1950) Director: \u00a0Joseph H. 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