Flashbacks provide a portrait of Bart who, after he kills a young chick with a BB gun at age seven, is hesitant to harm anyone with guns even though he is a good shot with a pistol.
He spent the remainder of the decade acting in mostly B-movies, with occasional roles in better films such as A Bell for Adano, Gun Crazy, In the Meantime, Darling, and A Foreign Affair.
This was one of a number of noirs directed by Joseph H. Lewis, who went on to helm Gun Crazy and The Big Combo.
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Wayne worked together with Ben Raleigh, writing songs for Cass Daley, as well as the 1946 hit "Laughing on the Outside (Crying on the Inside)", that was first popularized by bandleader Sammy Kaye and his orchestra and was featured in the 1950 film noir Gun Crazy.
Some of their films include Dillinger (1945), Suspense (1946), Gun Crazy (1949), Carnival Story (1954), The Brave One (1954, which earned writer Dalton Trumbo (who also worked on Gun Crazy) a Best Screenplay Academy Award), Gorgo (1961), Captain Sindbad (1963), and Heaven With a Gun (1968).
She went on to make six films in Hollywood, including Gun Crazy with John Dall (1949).