Gun Crazy

Few noirs fuse sex, danger, and doomed romance as explosively as Joseph H. Lewis’s Gun Crazy. What begins as a reckless attraction between two young outsiders quickly spirals into obsession, violence, and flight from the law. Driven by Peggy Cummins’s electrifying performance and some of the most kinetic filmmaking of the era, the film remains one of the most influential noirs ever made. 

When gun-obsessed pacifist Bart Tare (John Dall) witnesses expert shooter Annie Laurie Starr (Cummins) demonstrate her firearm prowess at a carnival one night, it's love at first sight. Aimless Bart joins the traveling show and begins a romance with Annie, but her dangerously rebellious spirit soon gets them both fired. After eloping, the young lovers embark on an armed robbery spree, managing to elude the authorities until Annie insists on pulling one last job.