Paul Elliott’s review published on Letterboxd:
Stylishly directed by Joseph H. Lewis, Gun Crazy has a script written by Dalton Trumbo who was blacklisted at the time and consequently penned under the name Millard Kaufman. It materialises as a Bonnie and Clyde narrative as femme fatale Annie Laurie Starr steers gun-crazy Bart Tare into a life of crime.
It's loaded with a heap of darkness together with some roughhewn emotions as the pair go on a nationwide robbery rampage, and this crime film noir unfolds to give birth to quintessentially the most hazardous sociopathic couple as potentially found in an American film from the period. Their serialised adventures come to pass dramatised with a tremendous amount of stylistic flair, and Peggy Cummins in the position of the sexually charged Annie imbues her character with a considerable degree of magnetic seductiveness.
Her screen chemistry with John Dall as the bullied and subjugated Bart secures them as a perversely intriguing couple as contempt and enthusiasm mutually fall from her lips. He gradually begins to realise the depths of immorality she's happy to launch herself, and it is possible to perceive the film as a morality tale about the path of delinquency in American youth. Still, despite that conservative possibility, the technical innovations, including a much-celebrated bank hold up represented in a single shot from inside the getaway vehicle, are impossible to resist.