Gun Crazy

Gun Crazy
Gun Crazy
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Joseph H. Lewis
Screenplay by	Dalton Trumbo; MacKinlay Kantor
Based on	"Gun Crazy"; 1940 story in The Saturday Evening Post; by MacKinlay Kantor
Produced by	Frank King; Maurice King
Starring	Peggy Cummins; John Dall
Cinematography	Russell Harlan
Edited by	Harry Gerstad
Music by	Victor Young
Production; company	King Brothers Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	January 20, 1950 (United States);
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$400,000 (1949)

Gun Crazy (also known as Deadly Is the Female)^[1] is a 1950 American crime film noir starring Peggy Cummins and John Dall in a story about the crime-spree of a gun-toting husband and wife.^[2] It was directed by Joseph H. Lewis, and produced by Frank and Maurice King.

The screenplay by blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo (credited to Millard Kaufman because of the blacklist) and MacKinlay Kantor was based upon a short story by Kantor published in 1940 in The Saturday Evening Post.^[3] In 1998, Gun Crazy was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."^[4]^[5]

^ Gun Crazy at the TCM Movie Database.
^ Gun Crazy at the American Film Institute Catalog.
^ A.H. WEILER (Oct 27, 1946). "BY WAY OF REPORT: Previewing a Theatre and Other Film Matters Love Seats Busy Kantor Glamour's Power". New York Times. p. 67.
^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
^ "Hooray for Hollywood (December 1998) – Library of Congress Information Bulletin". www.loc.gov. Retrieved 2020-06-23.