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When gun fancier Bart Tare sees Annie Laurie Starr's sideshow sharpshooting act, he's a dead-bang goner. He and she go together, as Bart ultimately says, "like guns and ammunition." The two become bank robbers on the run, eluding roadblocks and roaring into movie history as one of the benchmark film-noir works. Joseph H. Lewis directs this ferocious thriller selected for the National Film Registry and often cited as a forerunner to Bonnie and Clyde. Peggy Cummins and John Dall star, meeting in a sexually charged carny shooting contest and soon driven by impulses of violence and arousal they don't fully understand. They're young, foolish, doomed — and point blank in Gun Crazy's unforgiving sights.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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97%- Reviews Counted: 32
- Fresh: 31
- Rotten: 1
- Average Rating: 8.2/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: One of the most distinguished works of art to emerge from the B movie swamp.
Fresh: Darker and more subtly complex than you'd expect from a 1950s crime caper.
Fresh: Gun Crazy' is a magnificently enjoyable film, distinguished by Joseph H Lewis's restless, catch-all directorial style.
Fresh: Gun Crazy is less an expose 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.
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