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Jun 15, 2024 · love under the gun. love from the gun. love in the gun. how the system flourishes where it fails the sociopathic: there’s an ease of access to this lifestyle, enabling the sprawling derailment until it finally decides to draw a halt once things are decidedly “too out of hand,” uncanny to post-war normalcy—but, above such structural ...
- Joseph H. Lewis
Jun 27, 2024 · Peggy Cummins and John Dall star, meeting in a sexually charged carny shooting contest and soon driven by impulses of violence and arousal they...
4 days ago · Joseph H. Lewis directed noirs as diverse as Gun Crazy (1950) and The Big Combo (1955). The former—whose screenplay was written by the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo, disguised by a front—features a bank hold-up sequence shown in an unbroken take of over three minutes that was influential.
Gun Crazy (1950) The opening scene of "Gun Crazy" is a masterclass in forced wholesomeness. A little boy - 14-year-old Bart Tare (played as a child by Rusty Tamblyn) - steals a gun from a hardware store. But by golly, gosh darn it, he can't stomach the thought of shooting people with it.
Jun 12, 2024 · Just to complicate matters, however, Gun Crazy was originally released by United Artists in January 1950 as Deadly Is the Female, then re-released six months later under the title of the source material, MacKinlay Kantor’s Saturday Evening Post short story.
Jun 12, 2024 · The following list is the Official Definitive List of the 300 best movies made in the 1950s. I found17 different ranked lists online of “best” or “favorite 50s movies” and pulled them all into Excel and merged them all to get this definitive compilation.
Jun 23, 2024 · Gun Crazy: reprise. Ethan Hawke recently curated a double-bill on TCM including 'Gun Crazy' (1950). They discuss some of the incredible shot choices made by director Joseph H. Lewis. You'll remember my breakdown of the opening to this noir classic from early April here .
