Gun Crazy tells of a willowy, peaceful young man who, inexplicably, "just loves guns"; and a hot sharpshooter who knows why she loves them. Their sexual/shooting spree takes them far from society's borders, on "the road which leads from l'amour fou to la revolte folle," as Ado Kyrou put it. G?ard Legrand also admired the film: "Extreme simplicity presided over (the) sublime film, Gun Crazy...The sensuality, grace and marvelous panicking of Peggy Cummins, of whom John Dall is not in the least unworthy, enlivn a rigorous love poem. Nothing prevents the heroes getting away from a society in pursuit of them, but they cannot separate...And the overpowering smile of Peggy Cummins is there to prove to us that they aren't going to perdition blindly or under torture...So much cynicism begs for punishment. But their death at dawn in the ignoble swamp of 'real life'...has nothing in common with the miserable union, with its mystical stench, of the fugitives in Odd Man Out. The film as a whole, made by Joseph H. Lewis with a technical brio equalled only by his openly subversive intentions, adds up to a song of triumph."