With a production budget of approximately $30 million, and box-office gross receipts of $122 million (domestic) and $200 million (worldwide).Spiteful and holding his bruised rear-end, he warns the white-haired gent:If you lose this war don""t blame me."The low-budget, stylistic film cast two unknown leads as criminals on a cross-country run from the law - 23 year-old Peggy Cummins as carnival trick-sharpshooter Annie Laurie Starr, and 30 year-old John Dall as gun-fixated Bart Tare, who meet up and soon go on a robbery/shooting spree that ends in their deaths.She bought out her contract and returned to Broadway after the film and took a role specifically written for her in playwright Philip Barry""sThe Philadelphia Story.The word ""speakeasy"" begins to appear in our language, and the forces of the underworld who best know how to operate outside the law are moving in on a new source of revenue he magnitude of which no man dare guess.