Re: RARA-AVIS: Film Noir on VHS

Bill Hagen (billha@ionet.net)
Sun, 17 May 1998 19:13:55 -0500 (CDT) >
>Yesterday I caught a showing of a new print of GILDA at the Castro in SF. It
>was the first of a small Femmes Fatales series. Today...KISS ME DEADLY and
>GUN CRAZY. I'd never seen GILDA before. Good stuff.

Just saw GUN CRAZY myself and was very impressed with the psychology of the
characters. Two people who were "fatal" for each other, it seemed to me.
Apart, they would have had different careers. The intersection of cowboy
and modern cultures was interesting too--sort of what Dorothy Hughes did
(and the film did) in RIDE THE PINK HORSE. The last scene in GUN CRAZY in
the misty swamp with friends' voices appealing to the couple to give up was
quite eerie.

Bill Hagen
<billha@ionet.net>

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