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1 online resource (86 pages) : illustrations, portraits. |
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monochrome |
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text file |
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BFI film classics
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BFI film classics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 84-86). |
| Summary |
Gun Crazy is the very essence of film noir, a low-budget, high-octane thriller whose reputation has grown with every passing year since its first appearance in 1950. While its story of two doomed lovers, crashing through the small towns of the mid-West, running the gauntlet of hold-ups and shoot-outs to a bloody nemesis, owes much to the true-life tale of Bonnie and Clyde, the film achieves an intense poetry eloquently expressive of the dark side of the American Dream. |
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The film's origins in the poverty-row operation of the King Brothers are expertly described by Jim Kitses. He traces Gun Crazy's roots in the rain-slicked, nighttime world of noir, and in the post-war American society that gave birth to it. He teases out the effects of the Production Code, and the distinctive contributions of director Joseph H. Lewis, writers MacKinlay Kantor and the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo, and stars, Peggy Cummins and John Dall. Above all, Kitses provides a wonderfully alert and informative reading of a small masterpiece, a film that rises triumphantly above the modesty of its means. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK). WlAbNL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gun crazy (Motion picture)
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Gun crazy (Motion picture) |
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Gun crazy (Motion picture) |
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Literature, mass media and performing arts. |
| Indexed Term |
Cinema Films (Motion pictures) |
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United States |
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British Film Institute.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kitses, Jim. Gun crazy. London : British Film Institute, 1996 (DLC) 96218463 (OCoLC)35318970 |
| ISBN |
9781838716042 (electronic book) |
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1838716041 (electronic book) |
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9781838716059 (electronic book) |
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183871605X (electronic book) |
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0851705790 (paperback) |
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9780851705798 (paperback) |
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