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(Joseph H. Lewis, 1950, USA, 86 minutes)

Screening in 35mm!

One of the highlights of what Paul Schrader called “Phase 3” of the film noir era, Joseph H. Lewis’s Gun Crazy stars John Dall, whom we just saw in Rope two weeks ago, as a nice but gun-loving boy fixated on crack shot Annie Laurie Starr (the Welsh-born Peggy Cummins), whom he meets at a carnival trick shot show. MacKinley Cantor adapted his short story with the help of then-blacklisted Dalton Trumbo (credited as Millard Kaufman), and the resulting film is something of a Bonnie & Clyde story replete with far more than its share of cinematic flourishes—to name just one, watch for the POV bank robbery scene from the inside of the getaway car, which was improvised on the spot and with only the key players knowing what was going on.

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