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Deadly Is the Female
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Overview

User Rating:
7.9/10   2,694 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
MacKinlay Kantor (screenplay) and
Dalton Trumbo (screenplay) (front Millard Kaufman) ...
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Release Date:
20 January 1950 (USA) more
Tagline:
SHE BELIEVES IN TWO THINGS...-love and violence! (original poster) more
Plot:
Since he was a child, Bart Tare has always loved guns. After leaving the army, his friends take him to a carnival... more | full synopsis
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Awards:
1 win more
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(2 articles)
'Borderlands' Class Guide: The Hunter
 (From MTV Multiplayer. 15 September 2009, 10:00 AM, PDT)

Gun Crazy at 60: Pistol-Packing Anti-Heroine Peggy Cummins Looks Back
 (From Movieline. 13 August 2009, 8:30 AM, PDT)

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Crazy bout this underrated gem more (42 total)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Gun Crazy (USA) (new title)
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Runtime:
86 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Iceland:L | Canada:14A (Ontario) | USA:Approved (certificate #14023) | West Germany:16 (nf) | UK:PG (2008) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:(Banned)
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Trivia:
The bank heist sequence was done entirely in one take, with no one outside the principal actors and people inside the bank aware that a movie was being filmed. When John Dall as Bart Tare says, "I hope we find a parking space," he really meant it, as there was no guarantee that there would be one. In addition, at the end of the sequence someone in the background screams that there's been a bank robbery - this was actually a bystander who saw the filming and assumed the worst. more
Goofs:
Continuity: A shot from inside a sedan that Annie is driving shows a nameplate logo on the dashboard that says "Kaiser", but the only cars they are seen driving are the stolen Cadillac, a Packard convertible, a Chevy convertible, what appears to be an old Ford or Mercury convertible and a Ford sedan. more
Quotes:
Bart: You were going to kill that man!
Annie Laurie Starr: Why not? He would have kill us, if given the chance.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Exhumed (2003) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Laughing on the Outside (Crying on the Inside) more

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7 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
Crazy bout this underrated gem, 6 October 2002
9/10
Author: Mike-764 (michaelnella@yahoo.com) from Flushing, NY

Sharpshooters Ben Tare and Annie Laurie Starr, fall in love at a carnival sideshow, marry soon after and hope for a peaceful married life. When the money runs out Annie tells Ben that using the guns for nefarious purposes will the only way for them to survive. While placid Ben agrees to the proposal, trigger happy Annie soon gets them deeper and deeper in trouble with the law following robbery after robbery, stickup after stickup, until it becomes kill or be killed. Very daring and overlooked film, rises above the status of the B movie genre to which this film is delegated to. Cummins is perfect as the gun-crazed, as well the love-hungry Annie. Great cinematography by Russell Harlan, shooting all of the bank holdups from the back seat of the couple's car, making the audience feel a part of the getaway. Rating, 9 of 10

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