

1950·Crime·1h 27m
7.2
★

















Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.
Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
gun
carnival
film noir
sharpshooter
payroll robbery
based on short story
gun violence
crime spree
gun shooting
gun culture
gun enthusiast
fugitive lovers

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Cast

Peggy Cummins
Annie Laurie Starr

John Dall
Bart Tare

Berry Kroeger
Packett

Morris Carnovsky
Judge Willoughby

Anabel Shaw
Ruby Tare Flagler

Harry Lewis
Sheriff Clyde Boston

Nedrick Young
Dave Allister

Trevor Bardette
Sheriff Boston

Russ Tamblyn
Bart Tare (Age 14)

Stanley Prager
Bluey-Bluey

Virginia Farmer
Miss Wynn

Robert Osterloh
Hampton Policeman
Crew

Joseph H. Lewis
Director

Dalton Trumbo
Screenplay

Victor Young
Original Music Composer

Russell Harlan
Director of Photography

Dale Van Sickel
Stunts

Al J. Jennings
Technical Advisor

Sidney Cutner
Orchestrator

Arthur Gardner
Producer's Assistant
Popular Reviews
145 reviews
M
6.0★ · 04/16/26

Idk why I had faith in Bart when the film is literally called ‘Gun Crazy’ 💔
Idk why I had faith in Bart when the film is literally called ‘Gun Crazy’ 💔
Layla Stewart
7.0★ · 02/17/26

Poor man’s Bonnie and Clyde, cool ending tho
Poor man’s Bonnie and Clyde, cool ending tho
annie
7.0★ · 02/13/26

.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.
“we go together, annie. i don't know why. maybe like guns and ammunition go together.”
oh how i wish someone would love me as much as they love their guns
2026 ranked ⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢
.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.
“we go together, annie. i don't know why. maybe like guns and ammunition go together.”
oh how i wish someone would love me as much as they love their guns
2026 ranked ⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢
.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.
.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.
“we go together, annie. i don't know why. maybe like guns and ammunition go together.”
oh how i wish someone would love me as much as they love their guns
2026 ranked ⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢
.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.
“we go together, annie. i don't know why. maybe like guns and ammunition go together.”
oh how i wish someone would love me as much as they love their guns
2026 ranked ⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢
.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.
Billy Coles
8.0★ · 02/11/26

Need me a boyfriend who i can convince to dress up as cowboys and rob banks so we can be rich - such a beautiful looking film! The shots of them running through the trees and grass are my fav
Need me a boyfriend who i can convince to dress up as cowboys and rob banks so we can be rich - such a beautiful looking film! The shots of them running through the trees and grass are my fav
priscilla
8.0★ · 02/03/26

“How could anyone get hurt if we don’t hurt them?”A very romantic, very sexual, very disastrous Bonnie-and-Clyde—but somehow meaner, lonelier, more feral. Gun Crazy isn’t interested in glamour so much as it is obsession. Not love as something tender or redemptive, but love as fixation. Love as recoil. Love as the moment right before the trigger pulls back.
There’s this lingering bite of romantic noir all over the film, something that thrashes the way only the late ’40s / early ’50s could, with their cheap motels, nickel-dime add-ons, the quiet understanding that desire will ruin you long before the law ever does. Everything feels magnetic, electric, a little unhinged, like the characters themselves don’t fully understand how tightly they’re orbiting each other until it’s far too late.
And god, the devotion… not just to each other, but to guns. Firearms aren’t quite props here, they’re moreso extensions of the body, intimacy coming less from touch and more from shared impulse, shared danger, shared heat. There’s something almost indecent about how naturally violence slides into romance, how the two become inseparable. It’s sordid. It’s reckless. It’s intoxicating in the way only doomed things can be. Peggy’s electric, John dall is excellent, a very intimate film. If you want a lover…
“How could anyone get hurt if we don’t hurt them?”A very romantic, very sexual, very disastrous Bonnie-and-Clyde—but somehow meaner, lonelier, more feral. Gun Crazy isn’t interested in glamour so much as it is obsession. Not love as something tender or redemptive, but love as fixation. Love as recoil. Love as the moment right before the trigger pulls back.
There’s this lingering bite of romantic noir all over the film, something that thrashes the way only the late ’40s / early ’50s could, with their cheap motels, nickel-dime add-ons, the quiet understanding that desire will ruin you long before the law ever does. Everything feels magnetic, electric, a little unhinged, like the characters themselves don’t fully understand how tightly they’re orbiting each other until it’s far too late.
And god, the devotion… not just to each other, but to guns. Firearms aren’t quite props here, they’re moreso extensions of the body, intimacy coming less from touch and more from shared impulse, shared danger, shared heat. There’s something almost indecent about how naturally violence slides into romance, how the two become inseparable. It’s sordid. It’s reckless. It’s intoxicating in the way only doomed things can be. Peggy’s electric, John dall is excellent, a very intimate film. If you want a lover…