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Young 'Rusty' Tamblyn plays a kid so fixated on guns that he'll wander out on a rainy night just to steal one, in the fantastic opening of GUN CRAZY (1950). And what a dramatic closeup to end the scene!
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#RussTamblyn on GUN CRAZY: 'It was my favorite movie for years. Peggy Cummins just knocked me out... It was great to work with Joe Lewis. He gave me enough little tidbits to pull it off... Joe was the first director to really give me direction.' #GunCrazy
Tamblyn was not at all gun-crazy: 'Glenn Ford turned me on to fast drawing... I never owned one and could care less about guns... [The film] really holds up... Quentin Tarantino told me that GUN CRAZY is one of the *better* of my movies that he likes.' Via http://artsmeme.com/2013/03/03/russ-remembers-rusty-ucla-fil/
I love how the camera pulls back here, to within the darkness of the closed hardware store, to reveal the display case full of guns, the very object of the gun-crazy boy's obsession. #GunCrazy #RussellHarlan
And the way Tamblyn, as 14-year-old Bart Tare, gazes down in fascination at one gun in particular. The way his facial muscles contort, as his brain orders him to smash the only thing separating him from the gun that he must possess. #GunCrazy #RussTamblyn #FilmNoir
#BOTD #RussTamblyn ~ GUN CRAZY (1950)
