Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Starring
Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway
Director
Arthur Penn
Awards
Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actress - Estelle
Parsons
Academy Award Nominations
Best Actor - Warren Beatty
Best Actress - Faye Dunaway
Best Director - Arthur Penn
Best Picture
Best (Original) Screenplay
Plot Synopsis
Based on the true-life exploits of the notorious Depression-era
bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. Gun-toting drifter Clyde rescues dreamer
Bonnie from her drab existence by regaling her with colorful tales of the outlaw life.
Joined by Clyde's brother, his wife, and a gas-station attendant, they go on a crime spree
through Texas and Oklahoma.
Film Notes
"One of the landmark films of the 1960s, Bonnie and Clyde
changed the course of American cinema. Setting a milestone for screen violence that paved
the way for Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, this exercise in mythologized biography
should not be labeled as a bloodbath; as critic Pauline Kael wrote in her rave review,
"it's the absence of sadism that throws the audience off balance." The film is
more of a poetic ode to the Great Depression, starring the dream team of Warren Beatty and
Faye Dunaway as the titular antiheroes, who barrel across the South and Midwest robbing
banks with Clyde's brother Buck (Gene Hackman), Buck's frantic wife Blanche (Estelle
Parsons), and their faithful accomplice C.W. Moss (the inimitable Michael J. Pollard). Bonnie
and Clyde is an unforgettable classic that has lost none of its power since the 1967
release." (Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com)
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