Deadly Is the Female (Gun Crazy)

The definitive Joseph H. Lewis-directed melodrama, Gun Crazy is the “Bonnie and Clyde” story retooled for the disillusioned postwar generation. John Dall plays a timorous, emotionally disturbed World War II veteran who has had a lifelong fixation with guns. He meets a kindred spirit in carnival sharpshooter Peggy Cummins, who is equally disturbed - but a lot smarter, and hence a lot more dangerous.