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Peggy Cummins

Peggy Cummins

2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19501957

Born 18 December 1925 · Prestatyn, Denbighshire, Wales, UK · died 29 December 2017

Peggy Cummins was an Irish actress, born in Wales, who is best known for her performance in Joseph H. Lewis's Gun Crazy (1950), playing a trigger-happy femme fatale, who robs banks with her lover. In 2020, she was listed at number 16 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

How their films are shot

Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Peggy takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 2 films we hold, 61% of their frames are night, 44% low key — the look of the work Peggy takes.

Time of day

Night61%
Day36%

Lighting

Low key44%
Natural26%
Chiaroscuro16%
High key12%

Shot size

Medium55%
Wide19%
Closeup16%
Fullbody6%

Camera angle

Eye level87%
High angle7%
Low angle5%

Mood

Neutral55%
Tense30%
Ominous9%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 130 frames from Peggy Cummins's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.