Machine Gun Kelly 1958 M

Production still from Machine Gun Kelly 1958 / Director: Roger Corman / Image courtesy: National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Canberra / View full image
When
6.00 pm, Fri 20 Jun 2025 (83 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art, Cinema B
Accessibility
- Wheelchair Accessible
Admission
Free
About
In his first leading role, Charles Bronson stars as the real-life Prohibition-era gangster 'Machine Gun Kelly'. Corman devises an unconventional portrait of the famed crook, contrasting his violent persona against his curious superstitions and paralysing fear of death. The film is shot with Corman's characteristic low-budget invention, making the most of his limited sets by ramping up the pulpy melodrama and evergrowing sense of fatalistic inevitability.
M | Low level violence
Production Credits
- Director: Roger Corman
- Script: R Wright Campbell
- Cinematographer: Floyd Crosby
- Editor: Ronald Sinclair
- Cast: Charles Bronson, Susan Cabot, Morey Amsterdam
- Print Source: National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Canberra
- Rights: National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Canberra
- Year: 1958
- Runtime: 83 minutes
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Colour: Black & White
- Shooting Format: 35mm
- Screening Format: 16mm