aka Deadly is the Female. Nothing sexist there.
Netflix: Gun Crazy Shockingly dark and brutal for its time, this drama was directed by Joseph H. Lewis and stars Peggy Cummins and John Dall. A searing forerunner to Bonnie and Clyde, the film tells the story of a gun-obsessed twosome who meet at a carnival, run off to get married and then commit a string of daring robberies across the country. The screenplay was adapted by Dalton Trumbo from novelist MacKinlay Kantor's magazine article.
3 stars.
notes:
Mid-level noir, somewhat predictable. Interesting cinematography, quite rich B&W. As I've lamented before, such a shame that contemporary film doesn't ever look like this.
Women daring to wear slacks as a plot point, twice! Pasta-fazul, 1949 America seems like it is another universe. Lead actor (John Dall) from Hitchcock's Rope (Brandon Shaw), basically a reprise of the same mannerisms.
The bank heist sequence was done entirely in one take, with no one outside the principal actors and people inside the bank aware that a movie was being filmed. When John Dall as Bart Tare says, “I hope we find a parking space,” he really meant it, as there was no guarantee that there would be one. In addition, at the end of the sequence someone in the background screams that there's been a bank robbery - this was actually a bystander who saw the filming and assumed the worst.
