Bonnie and Clyde

1967

1h 51m

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7.5/10

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In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.

Directors

Arthur Penn

Writers

David Newman(writer by)

Robert Benton(writer by)

Stars

Warren Beatty

Faye Dunaway

Michael J. Pollard

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Top cast

Clyde Barrow

Bonnie Parker

C. W. Moss

Buck Barrow

Blanche

Frank Hamer

Ivan Moss

Velma Davis

Eugene Grizzard

Bonnie's mother (uncredited)

Patrick Cranshaw

Bank Teller (uncredited)

Owen Bush

Policeman (uncredited)

Clyde Howdy

Deputy (uncredited)

Russ Marker

Bank Guard (uncredited)

Ann Palmer

Bonnie's Sister (uncredited)

Ken Mayer

Sheriff Smoot (uncredited)

Directors

Arthur Penn

Writers

David Newman(writer by)

Robert Benton(writer by)

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Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) just happens to look out of her window one morning and spots a rather unsavoury looking fella (Warren Beatty) eyeing up her mother's car. Quick as a flash she is dressed and they are in this car never to look back. Realising that they are broke, they decide that robbing provincial shops and garages is actually a lucrative dawdle. It's at a garage, indeed, that they recruit CW Moss (Michael J Pollard) before hooking up with his brother Buck (Gene Hackman) and his wife Blanche (Estelle Parsons) before escalating their crime spree to banks and, of course, resulting in a fatality that cannot fail to galvanise the authorities. Soon they are most wanted with just about every cop in the state on their trail. Fortunately, these are not the best aimers - and their legend begins to grow. They are fêted wherever they go - a poverty stricken population seeing much to admire in their "entrepreneurial" spirit. It's history, so we know what happens - but that isn't really too important. Arthur Penn has put together a strong cast - especially Parsons who is great as the hysterical wife caught up in it all and Dub Taylor as the duplicitous "Moss Snr". The attention to detail is impressive - it looks great, the motor cars really didn't look like they could pull the skin off a custard. Beatty and Dunaway simply ooze chemistry and as the story progresses I challenge anyone not to be on their side... It's as entertaining and enjoyable to watch on screen as it is to read about the machinations of many in getting the thing made in the first place.

Geronimo196728 Mar, 2023