by Allan Fish
(USA 1967 111m) DVD1/2
We rob banks
p Warren Beatty d Arthur Penn w David Newman, Robert Benton ph Burnett Guffey ed Dede Allen md Charles Strouse m “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” by Flatt & Scruggs art Dean Tavoularis cos Theadora Van Runkle
Warren Beatty (Clyde Barrow), Faye Dunaway (Bonnie Parker), Gene Hackman (Buck Barrow), Estelle Parsons (Blanche Barrow), Michael J.Pollard (C.W.Moss), Dub Taylor (Ivan Moss), Gene Wilder (Eugene Grizzard), Denver Pyle (Capt.Frank Hamer), Evans Evans (Velma Davis),
Bonnie and Clyde is a phenomenon of a film, a movie that completely transformed the landscape of the American cinema, as well as the American landscape through the eyes of the cinema. No film before (and arguably since) has shown violence and murder with such realism, with such literally in-yer-face brutality. In short, it’s one of the true milestones of modern American film, a film that, along with The Graduate, The Wild Bunch and Midnight Cowboy, lead to the collapse of censorship.
In 1931 Clyde Barrow has been released from prison for armed robbery and is on the verge of stealing a car. Suddenly he is hailed by a woman from an upstairs window, who he can see is both very young and very naked. She calls for him to hold on and she hangs out with him, finding out about his criminal past. But when she doubts he’s telling the truth, he commits a hold-up to impress her and they begin one of the most infamous crime sprees in American history, assisted along the way by their driver, a short former gas station attendant, and Clyde’s brother Buck and his wife Blanche. (more…)