Bonnie And Clyde
1967
Based on the true-life exploits of the notorious depression-era bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, BONNIE AND CLYDE has become a part of popular American culture and is recognized as one of the most violent films to come out of mainstream Hollywood. Bonnie is bored with life and wants a change. She gets her chance .. Read more
| Starring | Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Michael J. Pollard |
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| Director | Arthur Penn |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama, Thriller |
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Bonnie And Clyde
Based on the true-life exploits of the notorious depression-era bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, BONNIE AND CLYDE has become a part of popular American culture and is recognized as one of the most violent films to come out of mainstream Hollywood.
Bonnie is bored with life and wants a change. She gets her chance when she meets a charming young drifter by the name of Clyde Barrow. Clyde has dreams of a life of crime, and freedom from the hardships of the depression. The two fall in love and soon begin a crime spree that extends from Oklahoma to Texas. They rob small banks with skill and panache, soon becoming minor celebrities known across the country. People are proud to have been held up by Bonnie and Clyde; to them the duo is doing what nobody else has the guts to do. To the law the two are evil bank robbers who deserve to be gunned down where they stand. Warrren Beatty (REDS, BULWORTH) and Faye Dunaway (CHINATOWN, DON JUAN DE MARCO) are marvellous as the young criminal lovers, delivering subtle and complete performances. Also excellent are Gene Hackman (THE FRENCH CONNECTION, UNFORGIVEN) as Clyde's brother, Buck; and Estelle Parsons as Buck's wife, Blanche; and the always enjoyable Michael J. Pollard as C.W. Moss. The extremely violent film has made a large impact on American culture, expressing the mood of rebellion rampant in the late 1960s and beyond.
| Starring | Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Michael J. Pollard, Denver Pyle, Gene Wilder, Estelle Parsons, Dub Taylor, Evans Evans, Garry Goodgion, Clyde Howdy, Ken Mayer, James Stiver |
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| Director | Arthur Penn |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 47 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 46 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Top Thrillers |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama, Thriller |
| Language | English |
| Subtitles | Arabic, English |
| Released | DVD: 21 Sep 1998 Blu-ray: 05 May 2008 Production year: 1967 |
| Format | DVD |
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“They're young! They're in love! And they kill people!” Not the slogan for Oliver Stone's notorious Natural Born Killers, but for one of the most stylish and uncompromising of gangster pictures. Released when graphic screen violence was very rare, this influential film was misread by some American critics, who dismissed it as a gimmicky, gory crime thriller. However, it proved to be the box-office hit of the year, and scooped ten Oscar nominations. Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty excel as the gun-toting criminals who roamed the American Midwest during the Depression, while David Newman and Robert Benton's sizzling script (which was originally offered to French directors François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard) and Arthur Penn's bravura direction are as fresh as ever.
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Technically brilliant evocation of sleepy mid-America at the time of the public enemies, using every kind of cinematic trick including fake snapshots, farcical interludes, dreamy soft-focus and a jazzy score. For all kinds of reasons a very influential fi
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8 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Absolutely perfect....
Somehow always managed to miss this film - and now that I've seen it it goes straight into my all time top five. I can't fault it in any way, direction, score, script and acting were perfect and the balance struck between the glamour of Bonnie and Clyde and the brutality of their crimes is finely judged. From the click,click, click of the photographs in the opening credits to it's bloody outcome - this film has it all.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Bonnie and Clyde is a good fun film, although touching on very serious tones throughout - Beatty's Clyde going almost into shock after first killing a man - it is overall just a crime caper. The end as most people know is hard to manage in the rest of the film's reasonably cheerful tone, but still fits perfectly. A good watch.
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