The Lady in Red (also known as Guns, Sin and Bathtub Gin) is a 1979 American crime drama film directed by Lewis Teague and starring Pamela Sue Martin and Robert Conrad.

The film tells a 1930s crime story of a poor farmer's daughter who leaves for Chicago, where she is sent to prison, works as a prostitute, falls in love with notorious criminal John Dillinger, witnesses his death, and finally tries bank robbery.

Polly goes to work at a sweatshop run by the vicious Patek, and befriends a Jewish communist, Rose Shimkus.

Tiny Alice arranges for Polly to work at a brothel run by Anna Sage, where she befriends a prostitute and pianist, Pinetop.

In prison, Tiny Alice stabs Rose to death, and is killed in turn by the other inmates.

John Sayles had previously written Piranha (1978) for producer Roger Corman which had done very well critically and commercially.

Sayles said Corman told him he wanted "a female Godfather story about the woman who was with John Dillinger when he was shot” and that was all.

[7]The job of directing went to Lewis Teague, who had worked at New World Pictures for a number of years as an editor and second unit director.

"[5] Instead the lead role went to Pamela Sue Martin, best known at the time for playing Nancy Drew on television.

Roger Corman re-released it in 1980 under the title Guns, Sin and Bathtub Gin, but it did not fare much better.

Factory released the title on DVD, packaged as a double feature with Crazy Mama as part of the Roger Corman Cult Classics collection.

[13] The Los Angeles Times liked the photography but thought "the film is corrupt and offensive because it sensationalises racism and sexism.

[15] Quentin Tarantino called it: My candidate for most ambitious film ever made at Roger Corman’s New World Pictures... Not only do I think this thirties era epic... is Sayles best screenplay, I also think it’s the best script ever written for an exploitation movie... John Sayles wrote a big screen big budget gangster epic, with one of the best female characters of any movie of the second half of the seventies.

With all the limitations imposed on them, Teague’s film is a miracle... it’s like five thirties set female-led features rolled into one huge Russian novel of a movie (shot on a shoestring in four weeks).

[16]On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an aggregated score of 83% based on 5 positive and 1 negative reviews.

[17] In 1984 Sayles said Lady in Red was "the only movie" he wrote for Roger Corman "that I wish I had been given the chance of directing.

It was a very ambitious script and it has become very popular in Europe but has fared hopelessly in the U.S. where it has had two title changes Bullets, Sin and Bathtub Gin and Kiss Me and Die.