This week’s “Movies” list topic for the Chris Vernon Show is very similar to last week’s: What can I do? Summer is all about action movies.
Last week was “Man on the Run,” based on the remake of Total Recall. This week, the theme doubles up for “Lovers on the Lam,” based on current box-office leader The Bourne Legacy, where Jeremy Renner and Rachel Weisz are on the run together. (Okay, they aren’t lovers — yet.)
I usually try to throw the radio audience a bone and have at least one or two semi-recent films on the list. I strongly considered the current Moonrise Kingdom, but with five unassailable classics of the genre all pre-dating the Carter Administration, that just wasn’t possible here:
5. Gun Crazy (1950): Classic “B” movie sometimes known as Deadly is the Female. Directed by Joseph Lewis and starring John Dall and Peggy Cummins as a married couple who go on a wild crime spree, in which the wife, an Annie Oakley-style shooting ace, turns out to be the most dangerous and aggressive part of the team. A technical marvel considering the budget, full of superb long takes.
