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Plot summary
Bart Tare's fascination with firearms begins in childhood. After he smashes a hardware-store window for a gun, a judge sends him to reform school for four years, though his sister Ruby and his friends Dave and Clyde testify that he could never shoot anything alive. Following a stint in the army teaching marksmanship, he comes back to Cashville, and his friends bring him along to a traveling carnival. There he beats Laurie Starr, the sideshow's sharpshooter, and is hired by the carnival's owner, Packett, who wants Laurie for himself. When Packett corners her, Bart answers with a bullet that passes close to Packett's face, and the two of them are turned out. Bart and Laurie marry and spend his savings. Once the money is gone, Laurie tells him to join her in a life of crime or lose her.
Cast
- Mickey Littleas Bart Tare (age 7)
- Paul Frisonas Clyde Boston (age 14)
- David Bairas Dave Allister (child)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Gun Crazy (1950)
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- Gun Crazy's bank-heist sequence was shot in one long take in Montrose, California, with nobody but the principal actors and the people inside the bank told what was happening. The camera was mounted in a stretch Cadillac on a greased board, with a jockey's saddle for the cameraman.
- Dalton Trumbo, one of the blacklisted Hollywood Ten, wrote the screenplay for Gun Crazy but was credited under the front name Millard Kaufman, and he reworked MacKinlay Kantor's story into a doomed love affair.
- Before casting, the King brothers, who produced Gun Crazy, originally announced that they wanted Veronica Lake for the lead role.
