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

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

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

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

The film is skilfully produced, with attention to detail above the ordinary.

| Sep 14, 2021

An improbable but well-made thriller.

| Sep 14, 2021

The film may have been a quaint display of American decency and small-town folksiness were it not for the electrifying and darker, more complex presence of Cummins.

| Feb 25, 2020

The already-classic trope of lovers on the run, à la Bonnie and Clyde, gets a stylish workout from the director Joseph H. Lewis.

| Nov 16, 2015

Fault is in the writing and direction, both staying on the surface and never getting underneath the characters.

| Apr 27, 2009

One of the most distinguished works of art to emerge from the B movie swamp.

| Apr 27, 2009

Darker and more subtly complex than you'd expect from a 1950s crime caper.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 27, 2009

Admittedly, the script is vintage corn. But visually Gun Crazy is a rude, startling and suggestive pleasure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 27, 2009

This is a small but perfectly formed black-and-white masterpiece of flash and trash, unwholesome obsession and criminal daring.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 27, 2009

Nearly 20 years before the same themes powered Bonnie and Clyde, Lewis was on to the possibilities of "outsider" cinema, and his film is all the more subversive for its origins as raw pulp, unpoliced by the Hollywood system, and getting away with murder.

Full Review | Feb 27, 2009

A major influence on both Bonnie and Clyde and the French New Wave (with Godard a particular admirer), it's a film that far transcends its low budget constraints.

Full Review | Feb 27, 2009

Like all great films noirs, this 1949 lovers-on-the-run thriller, directed by cultists' darling Joseph H. Lewis (The Big Combo), is lean, mean and delirious.

| Feb 27, 2009

This modest-looking B-movie, first seen in 1949, has acquired a substantial following in the years since - justifiably.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 27, 2009