list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Gun Crazy on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Gun_Crazy/14415/default.aspx Title: Gun Crazy
Year: 1949
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Plot: The definitive Joseph H. Lewis-directed melodrama, Gun Crazy is the "Bonnie and Clyde" story retooled for the disillusioned postwar generation. John Dall plays a timorous, emotionally disturbed World War II veteran who has had a lifelong fixation with guns. He meets a kindred spirit in carnival sharpshooter Peggy Cummins, who is equally disturbed -- but a lot smarter, and hence a lot more dangerous. Beyond their physical attraction to one another, both Dall and Cummins are obsessed with firearms. They embark on a crime spree, with Cummins as the brains and Dall as the trigger man. As sociopathic a duo as are likely to be found in a 1940s film, Dall and Cummins are also perversely fascinating. As they dance their last dance before dying in a hail of police bullets, the audience is half hoping that somehow they'll escape the Inevitable. Some critics have complained that Dall is far too effeminate and Cummins too butch, but Joseph H. Lewis was never known to draw anything in less than broad strokes: recall the climax of Terror in a Texas Town, wherein Sterling Hayden participates in a western showdown armed with a whaler's harpoon. The best and most talked-about scene in Gun Crazy is the bank robbery sequence, shot in "real time" from the back seat of Dall and Cummins' getaway car. Originally slated for Monogram release, Gun Crazy enjoyed a wider exposure when its producers, the enterprising King Brothers, chose United Artists as the distributor. The film was based on a magazine article by MacKinlay Kantor; one of the scenarists was uncredited blacklistee Dalton Trumbo. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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]]>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:47:19 GMTGun Crazy1949Joseph H. LewisThe definitive Joseph H. Lewis-directed melodrama, Gun Crazy is the "Bonnie and Clyde" story retooled for the disillusioned postwar generation. <a href="/players/P____16661/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>John Dall</a> plays a timorous, emotionally disturbed World War II veteran who has had a lifelong fixation with guns. He meets a kindred spirit in carnival sharpshooter <a href="/players/P____16172/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Peggy Cummins</a>, who is equally disturbed -- but a lot smarter, and hence a lot more dangerous. Beyond their physical attraction to one another, both Dall and Cummins are obsessed with firearms. They embark on a crime spree, with Cummins as the brains and Dall as the trigger man. As sociopathic a duo as are likely to be found in a 1940s film, Dall and Cummins are also perversely fascinating. As they dance their last dance before dying in a hail of police bullets, the audience is half hoping that somehow they'll escape the Inevitable. Some critics have complained that Dall is far too effeminate and Cummins too butch, but Joseph H. Lewis was never known to draw anything in less than broad strokes: recall the climax of Terror in a Texas Town, wherein <a href="/players/P____31197/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Sterling Hayden</a> participates in a western showdown armed with a whaler's harpoon. The best and most talked-about scene in Gun Crazy is the bank robbery sequence, shot in "real time" from the back seat of Dall and Cummins' getaway car. Originally slated for Monogram release, Gun Crazy enjoyed a wider exposure when its producers, the enterprising King Brothers, chose United Artists as the distributor. The film was based on a magazine article by <a href="/players/P____36855/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>MacKinlay Kantor</a>; one of the scenarists was uncredited blacklistee <a href="/players/P___114629/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Dalton Trumbo</a>. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide10Taggedy Taggged (6-10)9223http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t44138u4f4g.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Gun_Crazy/14415/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Games/Re_Before_and_After/598/32179/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: leeroy711
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Body: [quote user="joem18b"] [quote user="joem18b"] [quote user="leeroy711"] Samuel Fuller war movie that takes place in a mental institution. [/quote] big red one flew over the cuckoo's nest [/quote] world's most expensive assassin hooks up with a girl who is crazy about his tool. [/quote] The Man With The Golden Gun Crazy?? The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) Gun Crazy (1949)
]]>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:14:28 GMTleeroy711Movie Games7/6/2008 3:14:28 AM[quote user="joem18b"] [quote user="joem18b"] [quote user="leeroy711"] Samuel Fuller war movie that takes place in a mental institution. [/quote] big red one flew over the cuckoo's nest [/quote] world's most expensive assassin hooks up with a girl who is crazy about his tool. [/quote] The Man With The Golden Gun Crazy?? The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) Gun Crazy (1949) http://www.spout.com/blogs/unclefestering/archive/2008/5/8/28385.aspx Post By: unclefestering
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Post Date: 5/8/2008 8:43:02 PM
Body: If you listen to the Filmspotting podcast you are familiar with their marathons. One of their recent marathons was on the Film Noir classics. After watching some great movies like Double Indemnity (1944) and the The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and some much lesser Noir films like Gun Crazy (1949) , I was burned out on the style for a while, but I was inspired to see The Big Sleep. I waited a couple weeks for my batteries to recharge and am I ever glad I did. In many films that star real life couples, the characters they play often seem like burned out versions of themselves. Not here. Bogart and Bacall are simmering in every scene together. The bodies pile up as William Faulkner's screenplay tries to make sense of Raymond Chandler's macguffins and red herrings, but in the end it is all good. We get the ending we want.
]]>Fri, 09 May 2008 00:43:02 GMTunclefesteringunclefestering Blog5/8/2008 8:43:02 PMIf you listen to the Filmspotting podcast you are familiar with their marathons. One of their recent marathons was on the Film Noir classics. After watching some great movies like Double Indemnity (1944) and the The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and some much lesser Noir films like Gun Crazy (1949) , I was burned out on the style for a while, but I was inspired to see The Big Sleep. I waited a couple weeks for my batteries to recharge and am I ever glad I did. In many films that star real life couples, the characters they play often seem like burned out versions of themselves. Not here. Bogart and Bacall are simmering in every scene together. The bodies pile up as William Faulkner's screenplay tries to make sense of Raymond Chandler's macguffins and red herrings, but in the end it is all good. We get the ending we want. http://www.spout.com/blogs/dibot/archive/2007/6/13/11019.aspx Post By: dibot
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Post Date: 6/13/2007 11:10:00 AM
Body: I really enjoyed Knocked Up, the second film from writer/director Judd Apatow ("40 Year Old Virgin"). The rapport between star Seth Rogan ("You, Me and Dupree") and his guy friends was excellent. The married life of Paul Rudd ("Night at the Museum") and Leslie Mann ("The 40 Year Old Virgin") were hysterical and sometimes sad. When the movie decided to get serious, it felt real. I thought almost all of it was good. One of my main problems, however, was that Rogan is this kind of loser guy who gets this hot girl (Katherine Heigl, TV's "Grey's Anatomy") pregnant during a one night stand. Then he has to spend the rest of the movie convincing her that he's good enough for her. But she never has to convince him. Yes, she's beautiful. And she has a job. But she doesn't even know what the DeLorean is. Come on. Still, a fun and, in the end, uplifting pro-life movie. Gun Crazy (Deadly is the Female on imdb) is another film in the filmspotting film noir marathon. Made in 1949, it's said to be a direct influence on Bonnie and Clyde. The story follows gun obsessed Bart (John Dall, "Spartacus") as he meets sharpshooter Annie (Peggy Cummins, "In the Doghouse") at a traveling show. He joins the show to be close to her and then they set off on their own and embark on a crime spree. This film felt very different to me than the others in this marathon. There's no real twists to the plot. No detective. The shots are more close-ups and the editing is much faster paced. But the woman is still bad. I did not enjoy this film as much as the others, but it is still very interesting. And Dall and Cummins have great chemistry. RoboCop is one of those "classic" 80s action movies I've always meant to see. Paul Verhoeven ("Black Book") directs this story of a futuristic America where corporations run everything, including the police. The corporation is trying to clean up Detroit buy turning a terminally wounded cop into a cyborg. Only he starts remembering who he was. And his desire to find his killers leads him to uncover corruption in the corporation. The effects don't hold up extremely well and though the violence may have been shocking when the film was released, it's just not so much now. The fake commercials were cool. Overall, an entertaining and sometimes thought-provoking film.
]]>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:10:00 GMTdibotdibot Blog6/13/2007 11:10:00 AMI really enjoyed Knocked Up, the second film from writer/director Judd Apatow ("40 Year Old Virgin"). The rapport between star Seth Rogan ("You, Me and Dupree") and his guy friends was excellent. The married life of Paul Rudd ("Night at the Museum") and Leslie Mann ("The 40 Year Old Virgin") were hysterical and sometimes sad. When the movie decided to get serious, it felt real. I thought almost all of it was good. One of my main problems, however, was that Rogan is this kind of loser guy who gets this hot girl (Katherine Heigl, TV&#39;s "Grey&#39;s Anatomy") pregnant during a one night stand. Then he has to spend the rest of the movie convincing her that he&#39;s good enough for her. But she never has to convince him. Yes, she&#39;s beautiful. And she has a job. But she doesn&#39;t even know what the DeLorean is. Come on. Still, a fun and, in the end, uplifting pro-life movie. Gun Crazy (Deadly is the Female on imdb) is another film in the filmspotting film noir marathon. Made in 1949, it&#39;s said to be a direct influence on Bonnie and Clyde. The story follows gun obsessed Bart (John Dall, "Spartacus") as he meets sharpshooter Annie (Peggy Cummins, "In the Doghouse") at a traveling show. He joins the show to be close to her and then they set off on their own and embark on a crime spree. This film felt very different to me than the others in this marathon. There&#39;s no real twists to the plot. No detective. The shots are more close-ups and the editing is much faster paced. But the woman is still bad. I did not enjoy this film as much as the others, but it is still very interesting. And Dall and Cummins have great chemistry. RoboCop is one of those "classic" 80s action movies I&#39;ve always meant to see. Paul Verhoeven ("Black Book") directs this story of a futuristic America where corporations run everything, including the police. The corporation is trying to clean up Detroit buy turning a terminally wounded cop into a cyborg. Only he starts remembering who he was. And his desire to find his killers leads him to uncover corruption in the corporation. The effects don&#39;t hold up extremely well and though the violence may have been shocking when the film was released, it&#39;s just not so much now. The fake commercials were cool. Overall, an entertaining and sometimes thought-provoking film. http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/Re_Top_5_Actresses_in_Classic_Film_Noir/190/9119/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Jymkata
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Post Date: 5/21/2007 6:34:35 PM
Body: Wow, great topic, since the women really make film noir sexy and mysterious 1. I loooove Gloria Grahame in everything so I guess I have to cheat and say that I would put three of her noir performances in a tie- tough and sexy Debby Marsh in The Big Heat, scheming Irene Neves in Sudden Fear, and complicated Laurel Grey in In a Lonely Place2. I think Joan Crawford gets a bad rap because of her personal life, but I think she makes every movie she's in better. I'm going to cheat again and list two favorites, as Myra Hudson in Sudden Fear and as the indomitable Mildred Pierce3. I agree with you Jim that Jane Greer's entrance in Out of the Past is one of the most memorable, maybe only rivaled by Lana Turner's in The Postman Always Rings Twice. Jane's performance makes that movie all the more mysterious and menacing. 4. Gene Tierney is a great noir actress as well. She is the haunting prescence in one of my all-time favs., Laura and she's great in the noirs Whirlpool and Where The Sidewalk Ends as well as the noirish Leave her to Heaven, 5. If you are talking about single performances it would be hard to beat the portrayal of a vicious femme fatale that Ann Savage gives in Detour. You don't root for Vera and she isn't glamorous, but she catches Tom Neal in her web and leads him to his destruction. Maybe Peggy Cummings in Gun Crazy comes close. Lauren Bacall in Dark Passage and Key Largo, Veronica Lake in This Gun for Hire, Joan Bennett in Woman in the Window, and Barbra Stanwyck in Double Indemnity are my alternates.
]]>Mon, 21 May 2007 22:34:35 GMTJymkataTop 55/21/2007 6:34:35 PMWow, great topic, since the women really make film noir sexy and mysterious 1. I loooove Gloria Grahame in everything so I guess I have to cheat and say that I would put three of her noir performances in a tie- tough and sexy Debby Marsh in The Big Heat, scheming Irene Neves in Sudden Fear, and complicated Laurel Grey in In a Lonely Place2. I think Joan Crawford gets a bad rap because of her personal life, but I think she makes every movie she&#39;s in better. I&#39;m going to cheat again and list two favorites, as Myra Hudson in Sudden Fear and as the indomitable Mildred Pierce3. I agree with you Jim that Jane Greer&#39;s entrance in Out of the Past is one of the most memorable, maybe only rivaled by Lana Turner&#39;s in The Postman Always Rings Twice. Jane&#39;s performance makes that movie all the more mysterious and menacing. 4. Gene Tierney is a great noir actress as well. She is the haunting prescence in one of my all-time favs., Laura and she&#39;s great in the noirs Whirlpool and Where The Sidewalk Ends as well as the noirish Leave her to Heaven, 5. If you are talking about single performances it would be hard to beat the portrayal of a vicious femme fatale that Ann Savage gives in Detour. You don&#39;t root for Vera and she isn&#39;t glamorous, but she catches Tom Neal in her web and leads him to his destruction. Maybe Peggy Cummings in Gun Crazy comes close. Lauren Bacall in Dark Passage and Key Largo, Veronica Lake in This Gun for Hire, Joan Bennett in Woman in the Window, and Barbra Stanwyck in Double Indemnity are my alternates. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/disturbing/MemberTagFilms.aspxdisturbing
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