Gun Crazy  Gun Crazy (1950) is a film noir feature film starring
Peggy Cummins and John Dall in a story about the crime-spree of
a gun-toting husband and wife. The film was directed by Joseph
H. Lewis, and produced by Frank King and Maurice King. The
screenplay by Dalton Trumbo and MacKinlay Kantor was based upon
a short story by Kantor published in 1940 in The Saturday
Evening Post. Gun Crazy was selected for the National Film
Registry, and is also known as Deadly Is the Female.  Cast and
characters   Bart Tare (John Dall) is a ex-Army man who has a
lifelong fixation with guns--they make him feel good inside. The
drama opens with Tare, age 14, being grilled by a judge because
he had been arrested for breaking and entering and stealing a
gun. In flashbacks his friends say that while its true that Tare
loves guns, he would never kill anything. They tell the judge
the number of times he's refused to kill animals. Nevertheless
the judge sends him to reform school.  The next time we see Tare
he's grown up back in