John Dall stars as Bart Tare, a young man who returns from the army. Tare has always had a gun fetish, as we are shown in the beginning of the film.
When he returns to his small home town he visits a local carnival and immediately falls in lust with a young female sharp shooter named Annie Laurie Starr (Peggy Cummins). They are both attracted to each other like moths to a flame.
Starr is bored with her life and wants excitement and money. This sets the scene for an awful lot of trouble.
She finally convinces Bart to commit several small robberies, which he does. Although Bart has a gun fetish he believe a gun should never be used to kill anyone, but Annie is a bit more psychotic. During one robbery she kills two people and now Bart and Annie are hunted by both police and the FBI.
Their situation gets more and more desperate as the law slowly closes in on them. Joseph H. Lewis directed this gem and it has some fantastic film noir touches.
The best of those being the long, uninterrupted scenes in which the viewer is out in the back seat of the car Annie and Bart are driving around in plotting a crime. It is magnificent to behold this scene and very unique.
The ending is also very bleak, as is usual with these types of films. I highly recommend this one, and if you can find it on DVD without it costing a fortune, grab it.
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