GUN CRAZY

Dir. J.H. Lewis, English (US), 1949

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Sun 6 November 2011 // 19:30 / Cinema

Bart's got a thing for guns and when he meets Laurie, a carnival gun-slinging, trick-shot beauty, he falls in love. But a married life without luxury isn't Laurie's idea of happily-ever-after and they put their skills to thrilling use... Perhaps technically a B-Movie, this film deserves to be a SUNDAY SILVER!

 

SOME FACTS ABOUT GUN CRAZY:

Loosely based on the real-life depression era bandits Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, as well as their associate, Floyd Hamilton and Huron ‘Terrible Ted’ Walters.

The bank heist scene was shot in one take.  Most fascinating about this scene, though, is the fact that only the crew and the people inside the bank knew that it was being filmed, that it wasn’t real! When you hear a bystander shouting that there’s been a bank robbery, it is actually someone who believed it happened.  The dialogue was also improvised in this scene to keep it ‘hot’!

Gun Crazy was renamed DEADLY IS THE FEMALE for its UK release.  Peggy Cummings was a British actress and it was thought that by highlighting the lead female in the title would make a better draw.