Gun Crazy

1950 dramatic thriller


Rating: 14/20


Plot: A kid obsessed with guns kills a chicken. Later, he breaks into a hardware store and steals a gun, only to get busted when he slips and falls down. After four years in a juvenile detention facility and four more years in the military, he returns to his home town. Everybody says, "Wow! You look just like Orel Hershiser!" During a night out with his friends, he meets and falls in love with a carnival sharpshooter. They shoot things off each other's heads and get married. When the money runs out, they turn to lives of crime.


Crazy! This was a fairly good and fairly modern Bonnie-and-Clyde-esque movie, nice and quick. Nothing groundbreaking with wasted moments and no characterization, but a solid story filmed with some sense of style. Car scenes were very well done, including an extended single shot bank-robbing scene shot from the back seat. There's a final scene that looks great even if somebody really should have gotten ahold of the script prior to filming. AKA Deadly Is the Female, this works as a metaphor for the dangers of marriage. And it's yet another case where gun=penis.


Note: I may have spotted a midget during a scene at a carnival. I couldn't be sure and didn't feel like rewinding to confirm.


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