Gun Crazy

Gun Crazy (1950)

Timing: 1:27 (87 min)

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Release date

1950-01-20

Country

United States

Production

United Artists, King Brothers Productions

Genre

Crime, Thriller, Romance, Drama

Budget

$400 000 000

Revenue

$0

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Director

Joseph H. Lewis

Actors

John Dall, Peggy Cummins, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky, Anabel Shaw, Harry Lewis, Nedrick Young, Russ Tamblyn, Trevor Bardette, Anne O'Neal
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Scenario

Producer

Frank King, Maurice King

Operator

Russell Harlan

Composer

Victor Young

Artist

Audition

Editing

Harry Gerstad
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• The film is based on a story by McKinley Kantor, published in 1940 in "The Saturday Evening Post".
• The screenplay credits McKinley Kantor, the author of the original story, and Millard Kaufman. Kaufman was a pseudonym for Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted at the time and deliberately reworked the story into a tale of tragic love.
• The bank robbery scene was filmed in one take in Montrose. Only the main actors and the bank staff who had been warned were involved.
• For filming the scene shot from inside the car, a long Cadillac was used instead of a regular sedan, with the camera and a jockey’s saddle for the operator placed in the back. The dialogue in the scene is pure improvisation.