Gun Crazy Was A Great Film

Audrey Totter... as A. Fromsett in The Lady in the Lake

I’ve never bought so much crap in my life.  The past few weeks I’ve been stalking ebay, Amazon, and Powell’s Books in my attempt to recover the glories of my youth through the purchasing of books and dvds.

I am now the (not-so) proud owner of the first two seasons of Wonder Woman [I thought Lynda Carter was just sooooo beautiful.  I also loved it when she twirled around and transformed herself into her super-heroic self with the aid of music].

I am also now the proud (very proud) owner of Sweet Valley Twins books #1-39 and also 3 “Super Editions”.   These are seriously the 80s versions with the awesome 80s covers.  

I am also slowly but surely, finally building up my Nancy Drew Mystery collection.   Because Nancy Drew is cool beans, was cool beans, and will always be cool beans.   To prove this, I will probably start posting recaps ( and you know that you’re dying to read them).

I’ve also got two Film Noir collections.   Awesome.  So far I’ve seen The Border Incident (which is awesome and about the criminal activity associated with illegal immigration on both sides of the border), Gun Crazy (a seriously glorious film!   I can’t believe I haven’t seen it until now.   It’s about two hobags that are crazy for guns!  Sorry. ), Out of the Past (which was very good.  There was a hot guy in there, too… and his name’s not Robert Mitchum (who I will state here, again, had a weird phucking head) , and The Lady in the Lake  (Audrey Totter made that film the hotness).

If any of you ever want to watch these, I can totally let you borrow themz.

Gun Crazy. The Killuhs Trying to look normalz.

I also saw picked up Destry Rides Again with Jimmy Stewart and Marlene Dietrich.    I remember I once started watching this when I was in high school and it was on AMC (back when AMC used to be cool and NOT run phucking commercials),  but I had to go somewhere and never finished it.   I finally finished it and it was more awesome than I eevr dreamed it could be.

In a nutshell, the movie is about a corrupt little town that seeks to preserve it’s corruptivity by appointing a drunk to be sheriff after the post is conveniently vacated by the previous sheriff.  

The drunk sheriff knows he’s a joke, and thus tries to have the last laugh by appointing a deputy sheriff (Jimmy Stewart) who has the reputation of being a hardcore law-keeping gangster.   

Not so much, really, as it turns out.   That was his daddy with the hot reputation.   This deputy guy is actually anti-violence and anti-gun.   The corrupt townspeople  subsequently first witness the new dainty deputy  man holding a woman’s parasol whilst alighting from a coach in the town square or something, much to the chagrin of the sheriff,  they have a lot of fun with that.

Gradually, the deputy sheriff proves his authority and gains the respect if the corrupt townspeople through his logic and wisdom.  

I suck at recapping movies and at writing in general when it’s long-past midnight.  

The dialogue is cool in the movie, though.   My favorite bit has to be the exchange between the deputy sheriff and the town badass.   The deputy sheriff has a theory about the disappearance of the former sheriff that involves murder, and he presents this theory to the town badass (who he sort of feels is behind it) in a cute sort of way: 

Deputy:   (I’m totally paraphrasing)  So I wonder what happened to sheriff what’s-his-face?

Town Badass:   I told you he left town.

Deputy:   He left something behind.

Town Badass:  Yeah?   Like what?

Deputy:  His body.

God Bless Old Movies.