Gun Crazy is the most audacious work of “outlaw cinema” made during the classic Hollywood era. Blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo blasts through the Production Code with the sexually charged story of naïve gun-lover Bart Tare, whose life runs off the rails once he meets the woman of his darkest dreams: carnival sharpshooter Annie Laurie Starr—whose passion for action and excitement propels them on a cross-country crime spree. Joseph H. Lewis’ extraordinarily creative direction sparked a landmark of cinematic subversion, directly influencing films such as Jean Luc Godard’s Breathless and Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde. At its seething core is the all-stops-out performance of 24-year-old Peggy Cummins, delivering the most astounding depiction of erotically explosive female ferociousness ever committed to film.