Machine-Gun Kelly (film)

Machine-Gun Kelly
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRoger Corman
Screenplay byR. Wright Campbell
Produced byRoger Corman
StarringCharles Bronson
Susan Cabot
Morey Amsterdam
Richard Devon
Jack Lambert
CinematographyFloyd Crosby
Edited byRonald Sinclair
Music byGerald Fried
Production
company
El Monte Productions
Distributed byAmerican International Pictures
Release date
  • May 1958 (1958-05)
[1]
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$100,000[2]
Box office138,293 admissions (France)[3]

Machine-Gun Kelly is a 1958 film noir directed by Roger Corman that chronicles the criminal activities of the real-life gangster George "Machine Gun" Kelly. Despite its small budget, the film received positive critical reviews.[4]

Charles Bronson's lead role in Machine-Gun Kelly was his first in a feature film. Corman called the film "a major turning point in my career," because it was the first for which he had received serious critical attention.[5]

American International Pictures released the film as a double feature with The Bonnie Parker Story.[6]

  1. ^ "Two Thunderous Blasts Of Movie Greatness". Denton Record-Chronicle. May 29, 1958. p. 2.
  2. ^ Samuel Z. Arkoff and Richard Turbo, Flying Through Hollywood By the Seat of My Pants, Birch Lane Press 1992, p. 77
  3. ^ Box office information for Roger Corman films in France at Box Office Story
  4. ^ "Machine Gun Kelly: Review".
  5. ^ Corman, p. 55
  6. ^ Shocker Pioneers Tell How to Make Monsters: Want to Make a Monster? Experts Tell How It's Done, Scheuer, Philip K. Los Angeles Times 21 Sept. 1958: E1.