Directed by Joseph H. Lewis | USA | 87 minsThis explosive potboiler ran as a B-picture when it first debuted, but became an undeniable influence on the development of the subgenre. Even more so than films like Detour and They Live by Night, Gun Crazy lays bare the American obsession with cars, guns, and sex. Peggy Cummins and John Dall portray a couple of fugitive criminals whose intense sexual chemistry is ignited and fuelled almost entirely by their fetish for guns. Director Lewis told Cummins to play her part like a dog "in heat" and Dall like he'd "never been so hard," resulting in a pair of charged performances that sell what the script, written by the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo under a pseudonym, could not explicitly talk about.
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Globe Cinema, 617 8 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2P 1H1, Canada,Calgary, Alberta
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