Lion’s Stare You Down. Machine Gun Kelly is the work of director Roger Corman and writer Robert Wright Campbell. The cast includes Charles Bronson, Susan Cabot, Morey Amsterdam, Jack Lambert, Frank DeKova, and Connie Gilchrist. Gerald Fried composed the music, with Floyd Crosby handling the cinematography. George Francis Barnes Junior, also known as Machine Gun Kelly, was an American criminal during Prohibitio…