Dangerous passion
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Dangerous passion |
| Original title | Gun crazy |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1950 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joseph H. Lewis |
| script |
Dalton Trumbo MacKinlay Cantor |
| production |
Frank King Maurice King |
| music | Victor Young |
| camera | Russell Harlan |
| cut | Harry Gerstad |
| occupation | |
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Gun Crazy (Original title: Gun Crazy , Alternative title: Deadly is the Female ) is a in black and white twisted American film noir of Joseph H. Lewis dating back to the 1950s.
action
Bart Tare developed a fascination for firearms at an early age. When he was 14, he was sent to reformatory for stealing a revolver , despite the fact that his sister Ruby and friends Dave and Clyde, the sheriff's son, stood up for him.
After being released from the reformatory and completing his army service, the adult Bart returns to his hometown. Together with Dave and Clyde, who is now the sheriff of the place, he attends the performance of a traveling circus, whose attractions include the shooting skills of the sniper Annie Laurie Starr. Bart wins a shooting competition against Laurie and is hired by ringmaster Packett. Bart and Laurie are falling for each other quickly. The jealous Packett, who does not want to release Laurie, blackmailed her with the death of a man in St. Louis , through her fault . An argument ensues and Bart and Laurie flee together. The two get married and spend a happy honeymoon until they run out of money. Bart tries to find a job, but Laurie persuades him to raise money with robberies. After a series of successful robberies, Bart wants to get out. Laurie insists on another coup, robbing a meat producer's wages. When an alarm goes off, Laurie kills a clerk and a security guard. She confesses to the shocked beard that she had shot and killed a man in a robbery in St. Louis.
Bart and Laurie hide from the police with his sister Ruby. Dave and Clyde appear in front of the house, and Bart and Laurie flee to the nearby swamps, where they are surrounded by the police. When Laurie wants to shoot Dave and Clyde, she is killed by Bart, who in turn dies in the hail of police bullets.
background
Dangerous Passion is based on the short story Gun Crazy by MacKinlay Kantor , published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1940 . Kantor wrote the script with Dalton Trumbo ; since Trumbo, which was on the "black list" during the McCarthy era , could not work under his own name, Millard Kaufman officially acted as Kantor's co-author.
Dangerous Passion started in the USA, the country of origin, on January 26, 1950 under the title Deadly is the Female and again under the more common title Gun Crazy on August 24, 1950. In Germany , the film was released on March 13, 1951 in a shortened version the cinemas. On April 2, 1987, West 3 first broadcast a full version on television.
Although it was dismissed as a "cheap product" ( Bosley Crowther , New York Times ) at the cinema release , Dangerous Passion later earned the respect of film historians, who put him in a row with Fritz Lang's Gehetzt (1937), Nicholas Rays Im Schatten der Nacht (1949) and Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde (1967) portrayed young couples becoming outlaws, involuntarily or intentionally. ( Except for the couple fleeing the law, the 1992 thriller Guncrazy has no contextual reference to Kantor's short story and Lewis' film.)
Has also repeatedly singled out by film historians a quasi documentary , in a single setting filmed sequence in which the drive to the site of an attack, which is off camera cars are shown winamp bank robbery and the subsequent escape entirely from the stern of Barts and Laurie.
Reviews
“Because of the many introductory scenes, the film seems long. The second half, however, is racing under Joseph H. Lewis' direction [...] The script refers to the physical attraction between Dall and Cummins , but despite this emphasis seems strangely cold and emotionless. The guilt lies with the script and direction, who both stay on the surface and never look behind the facade of the characters. "
"Dark gangster film in the tradition of the inexpensive B-Pictures " [sic]; solidly staged and skillfully enhanced with a sense of tension, the film is an eloquent image of social behavior in the combination of eroticism and violence. "
Awards
In 1998, Dangerous Passion was listed as "Culturally, Historically, or Aesthetically Significant" on the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress .
Web links
- Gun Crazy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Dangerous Passion on Turner Classic Movies, accessed February 4, 2013.
- ↑ Dangerous Passion in the Internet Movie Database .
- ↑ Phil Hardy (Ed.): The BFI Companion to Crime. University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles 1997, ISBN 0-520-21538-9 , p. 153.
- ↑ a b c Alain Silver, Elizabeth Ward (Ed.): Film Noir. An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style, Third Edition. Overlook / Duckworth, New York / Woodstock / London 1992, ISBN 978-0-87951-479-2 , pp. 116-119.
- ↑ a b Dangerous Passion in the Lexicon of International Films .
- ↑ a b James Naremore: More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts. University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles / London 1998, ISBN 0-520-21294-0 , pp. 150-151.
- ^ "Because of so much establishing footage, the picture seems long. Latter half, however, races along under Joseph H. Lewis' direction […] Script points up the physical attraction between Dall and Cummins but, despite the emphasis, it is curiously cold and lacking in genuine emotions. Fault is in the writing and direction, both staying on the surface and never getting underneath the characters. “- Review ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Variety, 1950 (undated), accessed February 4, 2013.
