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Vintage French Film Movie Poster
Le Démon des armes
avec Peggy Cummins - John Dall-Berry Kroeger - Morris Carnovsky
Mise em scène de Joseph H. Lewis
This is a reproduction of a French movie poster for the classic American film noir Gun Crazy, which was released in France under the title Le Démon des armes. The 1950 cult classic stars Peggy Cummins and John Dall as an outlaw couple on a crime spree.
Key Information
Original Title: Gun Crazy, also known by its initial title Deadly Is the Female.
French Title: Le Démon des armes (The Demon of Arms).
Director: Joseph H. Lewis.
Starring: Peggy Cummins (as Annie Laurie Starr) and John Dall (as Bart Tare).
Plot: The film follows two young, gun-obsessed sharpshooters from a carnival who fall in love and embark on an armed robbery spree across the country.
Significance: It is a highly influential film noir, noted for its innovative cinematography, including a famous single-take bank robbery scene shot from the back seat of a car, and is often cited as a stylistic forerunner to Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde (1967).
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Le Démon des armes
avec Peggy Cummins - John Dall-Berry Kroeger - Morris Carnovsky
Mise em scène de Joseph H. Lewis
This is a reproduction of a French movie poster for the classic American film noir Gun Crazy, which was released in France under the title Le Démon des armes. The 1950 cult classic stars Peggy Cummins and John Dall as an outlaw couple on a crime spree.
Key Information
Original Title: Gun Crazy, also known by its initial title Deadly Is the Female.
French Title: Le Démon des armes (The Demon of Arms).
Director: Joseph H. Lewis.
Starring: Peggy Cummins (as Annie Laurie Starr) and John Dall (as Bart Tare).
Plot: The film follows two young, gun-obsessed sharpshooters from a carnival who fall in love and embark on an armed robbery spree across the country.
Significance: It is a highly influential film noir, noted for its innovative cinematography, including a famous single-take bank robbery scene shot from the back seat of a car, and is often cited as a stylistic forerunner to Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde (1967).
