... the greatest of the criminal lovers-on-the-run thriller, explodes onto the screen in a fury of sex and guns and love and violence... a masterpiece of style and a blast of cinematic ecstasy on a budget barely bigger than a B movie.

| May 4, 2024

In the film’s misty final stretch, the characters are lost in a dense fog. They anticipate their own demise, but they latch onto their weapons knowing very well that surrendering is no longer an option...

| Nov 21, 2023

A vivacious, visually exciting noir.

| Original Score: A | Nov 23, 2022

Tightly knit suspense and deft character drawing make [Gun Crazy] one of the surprise thrillers of the season. You can fairly hear the audience holding its breath as events build up to the crashing climax.

| Sep 15, 2021

Dall is particularly good as the boy who only feels important with a gun in his hands, and Miss Cummins, a pleasant surprise histrionically as the girl who doesn't give a hoot about anything except John, money and not getting caught.

| Sep 15, 2021

John Dall docs fine acting in this crime melodrama, which is frequently better than many of the more elaborate and expensive films on the same subject.

| Sep 15, 2021

[This] little melodrama, as lurid in sex and action as they come, contains the best chase-stuff of the year.

| Sep 15, 2021

Whether you find this movie thrilling or depressing, depends on your capacity for violence. It's exciting in a sordid sort of way.

| Sep 15, 2021

[Gun Crazy] is one of those terrifically swell suspense dramas, which should prove a comeback trail for two excellent screen players.

| Sep 14, 2021

For the most part, the film seems to be one that you've seen before.

| Sep 14, 2021

Dall is good in the role, Miss Cummins sulkily pretty. Berry Kroeger and Morris Carnowsky have support roles as carny owner and a judge, respectively. But a juvenile-delinquent opening slows and lengthens the picture unnecessarily.

| Sep 14, 2021

Lately there have been a number of these pictures about young couples that go in for this type crime. Gun Crazy is slightly different in introduction but after the story gets under way, the action is the same.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 14, 2021

Although the story is unpleasant because it deals with crime, the acting is so realistic that one feels as if present in real-life occurrences. The scenes that show where John Dall and Peggy Cummins are being hunted hold one in tense suspense.

| Sep 14, 2021

Gun Crazy has its share of the normal excitements that accrue from hold-up, chase and escape, but the whole design of the picture is bankrupt from use and exploitation.

| Sep 14, 2021

Besides the extraordinary performance of [Peggy Cummins], the film serves up... some of the most sustained photographic suspense and the tightest cutting I have been privileged to encounter in an awful lot of picture-going.

| Sep 14, 2021

In its classification as a nerve-tingling melodrama, the picture is superb, for it sets a relentless pace and is continuously absorbing.

| Sep 14, 2021

The story is stock and the acting is in keeping with it.

| Sep 14, 2021

Gun Crazy achieves a respectable level of excitement and its account of a well planned hold-up in the pay office of a meat packing company is an admirable piece of work.

| Sep 14, 2021

Pace throughout is of the hand-gallop order, and there is a hard and brittle gloss to the whole thing.

| Sep 14, 2021

There were times in the criminal's getway car when the continuous camera shot didn't seem to break for hours, all the time the drama builds up to a tremendous peak with just throw away lines from the principals.

| Sep 14, 2021