Joseph H. LewisCast
John Dall Peggy Cummins Berry Kroeger Morris Carnovsky Anabel Shaw Harry Lewis
Credits
Written by: MacKinlay Kantor
Plot
A gun-obsessed man, Bart, and a sharpshooting carnival girl, Annie, fall in love and go on a crime spree, in a lean, feverish noir with a famous long take of a bank robbery filmed from the back seat of a car.
Sinekatalog’s take
A lean, feverish and influential B noir.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.6 / 10 (16,898 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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