Holstra Boring, long, and too preachy.

Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

rodrig58 An excellent action-love story-drama, with absolutely unknown actors. The only known name is Russ Tamblyn, who has a tiny role as a child, being the main male character when he was a teenager. Peggy Cummins and John Dall are impeccable. All the actors are very good, excellent direction, solid script. Filmed very dynamically for the time it was made. Very good!

higherall7 This is a great date movie! Peggy Cummins looks like one of those Kirby inspired female characters straight out of Marvel Comics. She is a knockout in her Cowgirl costume at the beginning of the film. A cross between a Comic Book Heroine and a pinup out of a girlie magazine. A woman conjured up out of every adolescent boy's wishful thinking and nascent sexual fantasies. Playing Annie Laurie Starr she is as much a girl woman as her counterpart is a boy man. A once in a lifetime opportunity for the right fellow. John Dall as Bart Tare, despite his aversion for killing any living thing, is her match as an expert marksman and it is on this basis that their romance begins. I must say that it is the way their relationship commences in a display of skill that puts this film head and shoulders about other love stories based primarily on sexual heat. Even though the physical attraction is evidently there between Annie and Bart, he wins her company because of his ability with guns more than his looks. Otherwise, he would be just the same as the other yokels, carrying a torch for a woman he cannot have. The fact that they are both expert at the same thing suggests an excellent basis for a relationship, and there is the sense that this romance could just as easily evolve into a positive rather than a negative one.During the course of the narrative, however, we are led to see that their skill with guns is about the only thing fully ripened in their personalities. It is their inability to handle money or work hard towards appropriate career paths for their talents that reveals their immaturity in other areas of Life. Bart would like to use his talents to work for Remington in some capacity handling and testing new models of guns and weaponry. One can easily envision him doing this. But Annie wants the luxurious and glamorous life. She wants it now and she wants it to come easy. Bart finds her too beautiful to refuse, and his feelings for her override any moral reaction he may have concerning the virtue of her intentions in polite society. Annie presents him with an ultimatum, he can become a career criminal with her or find someone else. Bart chooses her and a life of crime, but insists on no killing and only until they can get back on their feet into a more legal line of work.This film is considered by some reviewers here as a precursor to BONNIE AND CLYDE. Personally, I prefer it to Bonnie and Clyde. It is excellent Film noir and these characters have more substance to them. Especially Bart Tare, who has a compelling back story presented in flashbacks during the beginning of the narrative. I wish Annie Laurie Starr had been given a few scenes of back story as well, however fleeting, to suggest an explanation for her more murderous impulses and sharply developed killer instinct which is in distinct contrast to Bart Tare's distaste for killing.I also do not buy the idea that Annie was 'bad to the bone', or 'rotten to the core'. Rather that someone in Life drilled or beat this idea into her until she accepted it and found to her dismay she could not prove otherwise. Neither she or Bart Tare come across as essentially bad people given to sadism and cruelty simply for the pleasure of it. Rather they come across as personalities not fully developed and willing to do anything to come out of their poverty of character into the affluent lifestyle that Annie desperately craves and Bart would like to achieve through more reasonable and legal means.That their love demonstrates the inchoate nature of their relationship and lack of moral strength is the basis for their tragedy and ultimate downfall. This, despite a charming and romantic beginning filled with superficially glamorous possibilities.

Dalbert Pringle In this "white-trash-meets-white-trash" picture, I found its most shocking (and, at the same time, most unintentionally hilarious) scene of all was when (as a 12-year-old, gun-crazy, delinquent) Bart Tare guns down (are you ready for this?) a cute, baby chick. I mean, you really have to see this scene (in all of its preposterous over-dramatization) to know what I'm talking about here. But, believe me, it's a hoot! One of Gun Crazy's biggest problems was that, every step of the way, the viewer could clearly see exactly where its story was going. So, that, in turn, rendered its climatic, final showdown as being nothing but a complete and total let-down.Another thing that didn't impress me much about Gun Crazy was its two light-weight, lead actors, Peggy Cummins and John Dall. Yeah. OK. The element of sleaziness was definitely there - But, on the whole, any genuine, gun-lusting chemistry between this trashy dynamic duo clearly missed the mark, in the long run.

SnoopyStyle Bart Tare has always been gun crazy. As a child, he kills a little chick with a BB gun. As a teen, he gets caught stealing a gun from a hardware store. At court, his friends recount how he couldn't shot a mountain lion while his teacher tells the incident of him bringing a gun to class. The judge sends him to reform school. He is released as a young man after sharpening his shooting skills. While attending a traveling carnival, he meets sharpshooter star Annie Laurie Starr. The boys push him to accept a shooting challenge. After beating Annie, he accepts a job in the carnival. The possessive drunken boss tries to force Annie and Bart comes to the rescue. They are both fired. They go off and get married. Soon they're out of money and she returns to her old ways pulling him along with her. They go on a crime spree of holdups.This is a fascinating noir of its era. The look is pulpy good. The acting is somewhat old fashion. The performances are a little stilted. My big complaint is for the era. The story is calling for more sex and violence. At least, it's more than what the code at the time allows. There is a very interesting long uncut scene inside the car where it's shot out of the backseat. There are some exciting car chases although they're still using projection screens. Generally, it's pretty good for a B-movie.