High Contrast Cinema launch their 'Femme Fatale' season with the thrilling lovers-on-the-run Gun Crazy from 1950.

 

John Dall plays Bart Tare, an ex-soldier with a firearm fixation who finds himself bewitched by Peggy Cummins’ Annie Laurie Starr, a carnival sharpshooter who lures him into a violent crime spree that can only ever end in tragedy.

 

Directed by Joseph L. Lewis, Gun Crazy is a wildly entertaining B-movie that influenced the French New Wave to the New Hollywood movement and much more besides. Annie Starr is widely considered to be one of the most dangerous and iconic femmes fatales from the classic film noir period - so who better to start the season off with?