Synopsis
Gun Crazy (1950) is an American noir crime film you can watch online on iFILM. Director Joseph H. Lewis shot it on a shoestring in under a month and still landed one of the era's most kinetically charged pictures.
Bart has been obsessed with guns since boyhood — not out of cruelty, but pure compulsion. At a travelling carnival he meets Annie Starr: a crack shot who looks for thrills and cash above anything else. Peggy Cummins and John Dall play the couple as two people genuinely drawn to each other and genuinely doomed by that same pull. The robberies start small and escalate fast, each one tightening the vice.
The film is cited in every serious noir retrospective for one reason: a real-time, uncut bank heist filmed from the back seat of the getaway car, camera hand-held, actors improvising. That single sequence predated what would later be called cinéma vérité by years. Stream Gun Crazy online on iFILM.
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