I watched the 1950 film Guncrazy, I hadn't seen it since I was in my teens, and I forgot how much I liked it. It’s a noir film about two lovers who are fascinated by guns and have an erotic draw to each other based on their gunplay, and they end up becoming robbers on the lam. The movie felt ahead of its time, with the leads feeling more fit for an 80’s noir but with the sexuality more simmering instead of explicit. I also forgot that there’s a very impressive one-take sequence of their robbery from the POV of the back of the car, that was very mature filmmaking for a somewhat B-movie in 1950.
There’s a loose remake from 1992 directed by Tamra Davis and starring Drew Barrymore, and it’s a decent movie, though it’s not the same story, just same title and inspiration.
I checked IMDB, and I see that Dalton Trumbo co-wrote the screenplay, but was blacklisted at the time and had a friend use his name in place of his as a front.
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