| Gun Crazy | |
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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 |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $400,000 (1949) |
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.
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]
- ^ Gun Crazy at the TCM Movie Database.
- ^ Gun Crazy at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
- ^ A.H. WEILER (Oct 27, 1946). "BY WAY OF REPORT: Previewing a Theatre and Other Film Matters Love Seats Busy Kantor Glamour's Power". New York Times. p. 67.
- ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
- ^ "Hooray for Hollywood (December 1998) – Library of Congress Information Bulletin". www.loc.gov. Retrieved 2020-06-23.