| Machine-Gun Kelly | |
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| Directed by | Roger Corman |
| Screenplay by | R. Wright Campbell |
| Produced by | Roger Corman |
| Starring | Charles Bronson Susan Cabot Morey Amsterdam Richard Devon Jack Lambert |
| Cinematography | Floyd Crosby |
| Edited by | Ronald Sinclair |
| Music by | Gerald Fried |
Production company | El Monte Productions |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $100,000[2] |
| Box office | 138,293 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]
- ^ "Two Thunderous Blasts Of Movie Greatness". Denton Record-Chronicle. May 29, 1958. p. 2.
- ^ Samuel Z. Arkoff and Richard Turbo, Flying Through Hollywood By the Seat of My Pants, Birch Lane Press 1992, p. 77
- ^ Box office information for Roger Corman films in France at Box Office Story
- ^ "Machine Gun Kelly: Review".
- ^ Corman, p. 55
- ^ 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.