Best movie ever!

Beautiful, moving film.

Absolutely Fantastic

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Given the title Guns, Girls And Gangsters I was ready to trash even with what I thought was an interesting cast. But this independent film from United Artists turned out to be a lot better than I thought it would be given budget constraints.Gerald Mohr is newly released from prison and he's got the germ of an idea for an armored car heist on the highway from Las Vegas to Los Angeles near the California/Nevada state line. It takes some split second timing and someone, namely him, who has to make a very accurate rifle shot.It also depends on Mamie Van Doren checking into and occupying a room at a motel with a gas station and auto repair shop within feet of the spot picked by Mohr. Mamie being Mamie has a lot of men interested in here, but they keep some distance because her husband Lee Van Cleef was Mohr's cellmate in the penitentiary is a most jealous type with a hair trigger. In fact the whole idea for the heist came from Van Cleef while he and Mohr were together in prison.As in these films things that you can't plan for usually are what upsets the apple cart. In this case a jealous Van Cleef busts out of the joint with only three months left on his sentence.Due to the nature of the plot Van Cleef only appears in the second half of the film. But when he comes on, he dominates. This is definitely one of his best early films.The whole cast is outstanding. Mamie Van Doren always gives us something to look forward to. But Lee Van Cleef just totally steals Guns, Girls, And Gangsters.Don't dismiss this one because of the exploitive title. This one is a real find.

I've written a review for this movie two times and two times my computer has crashed. I'm not doing it again, so I'll be brief.I enjoy this movie much more than I should. It's got a ton of problems, the worst of which are plot holes big enough to drive the armored car in the movie through. But, it's too much fun not to like. Being a movie with Mamie Van Doren, she's quite naturally the center of attention. With two songs, platinum blond hair, quotes like the one I put in the title of this review, bullet bras, and skin-tight skirts - what's not to like? The rest of the cast, Gerald Mohr and Lee Van Cleef in particular, are also good. Van Cleef's crazed killer is an over-the-top blast. Add some real suspense toward the end of the movie, enough plot points for two movies, nice cinematography and locations, and noirish style dialogue - you've got a fun, 50s B-quickie that fans of this stuff should really check out. A 6/10 from me.

They called her the "Platinum Powerhouse" and while she was prettier and more talented than her rival, Jayne Mansfield, Mamie Van Doren seemed to be mired in exploitation movies. She wasn't able to capitalize on her success in an A "Teacher's Pet" but after a brief sojourn in Italy she was back in Hollywood where she met talented director Edward L. Cahn but the result was more exploitative quickies. He had started in 1926 as a film cutter for Universal but in the 1950s was behind some cult movies such as "The She Creature" and "Dragstrip Girl". Their first collaboration was "Guns, Girls and Gangsters" guaranteed to have teens flocking to the drive-ins and while Mamie got to show her musical talents in two sexy numbers for the remainder of the film she seemed to act like a cat on heat!! With enough plot complications for 3 movies, let alone one of only 70 minutes in length, this starts off like an Ed Wood Jnr. movie - more voice over than actual acting!! Chuck Wheeler (Gerald Mohr) is trying to recruit a gang to pull off an armoured car heist and of course every gang must have a moll - and who better than Mamie as Vi Victor, a slinky entertainer at Club Toreador, who is introduced singing the sultry "Anything Your Heart Desires" and then encouraging patrons to put their money in the slot machines!!! The robbery is planned to the nth degree - then disaster strikes when Vi's psychotic husband (Lee Van Cleef) escapes from San Quentin and starts shooting anyone who has ever looked twice at his (soon to be X) wife!! He is only stopped as he watches from a window Vi's sexy song "Meet Me Half Way". Thanks to the young couple who are the proprietors of the "Stage Coach Inn" and who dream of white picket fences and little cottages in the country, Vi is a reformed gal. She now wants a home among wide open spaces where she is not constantly looking over her shoulder and Chuck is happy to reform as well. They just have to survive a shootout and her husband's angry ire!!! Can they do it - you'll just have to watch the movie!!!

Chuck Wheeler (Gerald Mohr) gets out of prison and heads to Las Vegas to enact an elaborate heist where he plans to steal an armored car carrying over $2 million in post-New Year's gambling money. He enlists the aide of local gangster Joe Darren (Grant Richards) and his lounge singer fiancé Vi (Mamie Van Doren), who just happens to be the wife of Wheeler's old cell mate. They plan everything out and it looks like it will go smoothly until Vi's ex-husband, Mike (Lee Van Cleef), breaks out of jail. This is a quick moving B-picture and director Edward L. Cahn never lets it lag through its 70 minutes. Van Doren isn't as much of a bad girl as in the previous feature I saw, VICE RAID. Here she is more of a good girl caught in a bad situation. To show how good she is, Van Doren gets two musical numbers in this one. Surprisingly, they don't play up her curves as much as VICE, but the swelling horn section is still abused plenty on the soundtrack. The supporting cast is all good and it is funny to know that even when he was young, Van Cleef still looked old.