Gun Crazy
1950 film by Joseph H. Lewis / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gun Crazy (also known as Deadly Is the Female)[1] is a 1950 American crime film noir starring Peggy Cummins and John Dall in a story about the crime-spree of a gun-toting husband and wife.[2] It was directed by Joseph H. Lewis, and produced by Frank and Maurice King.
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Directed by | Joseph H. Lewis |
Screenplay by | Dalton Trumbo MacKinlay Kantor |
Based on | "Gun Crazy" 1940 story in The Saturday Evening Post by MacKinlay Kantor |
Produced by | Frank King Maurice King |
Starring | Peggy Cummins John Dall |
Cinematography | Russell Harlan |
Edited by | Harry Gerstad |
Music by | Victor Young |
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Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $400,000 (1949) |
The screenplay by blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo (credited to Millard Kaufman because of the blacklist) and MacKinlay Kantor was based upon a short story by Kantor published in 1940 in The Saturday Evening Post.[3] In 1998, Gun Crazy was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."[4][5]