Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Director:

Arthur Penn

Writers:

David Newman (written by) &
Robert Benton (written by)
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Release Date:

13 August 1967 (USA)

Genre:

Biography | Crime | Drama

Tagline:

"The strangest damned gang you ever heard of. They're young. They're in love. They rob banks."

Plot:

A somewhat romanticized account of the career of the notoriously violent bank robbing couple and their gang.

Plot Keywords:

Bank | Crime Spree | Violence | Robbery | Love

Awards:

Won 2 Oscars. Another 20 wins & 22 nominations

Cast

Warren Beatty	...	Clyde Barrow
Faye Dunaway	...	Bonnie Parker
Michael J. Pollard	...	C.W. Moss
Gene Hackman	...	Buck Barrow
Estelle Parsons	...	Blanche
Denver Pyle	...	Frank Hamer
Dub Taylor	...	Ivan Moss
Evans Evans	...	Velma Davis
Gene Wilder	...	Eugene Grizzard
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Martha Adcock	...	Bank Customer (uncredited)
Harry Appling	...	Bonnie's Uncle (uncredited)
Owen Bush	...	Policeman (uncredited)
Mabel Cavitt	...	Bonnie's Mother (uncredited)
Patrick Cranshaw	...	Bank Teller (uncredited)
Frances Fisher	...	Bonnie's Aunt (uncredited)
Sadie French	...	Bank Customer (uncredited)
Garry Goodgion	...	Billy (uncredited)
Clyde Howdy	...	Deputy (uncredited)
Russ Marker	...	Bank Guard (uncredited)
Ken Mayer	...	Sheriff Smoot (uncredited)
Ken Miller	...	Police Officer (uncredited)
Ann Palmer	...	Bonnie's Sister (uncredited)
Stuart Spates	...	Boy at Bank (uncredited)
James Stiver	...	Grocery Store Owner (uncredited)
Ada Waugh	...	Bonnie's Aunt (uncredited)

Directed by
Arthur Penn

Writing credits
David Newman		(written by) &
Robert Benton		(written by)
Robert Towne		uncredited

Produced by
Warren Beatty	....	producer

Original Music by
Charles Strouse

Cinematography by
Burnett Guffey		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Dede Allen

Art Direction by
Dean Tavoularis

Set Decoration by
Raymond Paul

Costume Design by
Theadora Van Runkle		(costumes designed by) (as Theadora van Runkle)

Makeup Department
Robert Jiras	....	makeup created by
Gladys Witten	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Russell Saunders	....	production manager (as Russ Saunders)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jack N. Reddish	....	assistant director

Art Department
Stuart Spates	....	intern (uncredited)

Sound Department
Francis E. Stahl	....	sound
Dan Wallin	....	sound re-recording mixer (uncredited)

Special Effects by
Danny Lee	....	special effects

Stunts
Steven Burnett	....	stunts (uncredited)
Roydon Clark	....	stunts (uncredited)
Bennie E. Dobbins	....	stunts (uncredited)
Bob Harris	....	stunts (uncredited)
Eddie Hice	....	stunts (uncredited)
Clyde Howdy	....	stunts (uncredited)
Lucky Mosley	....	stunts (uncredited)
Harvey Parry	....	stunts (uncredited)
George Sawaya	....	stunt double: Warren Beatty (uncredited)
George Sawaya	....	stunts (uncredited)
Mary Statler	....	stunts (uncredited)
Dale Van Sickel	....	stunts (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Richard Doran	....	assistant camera (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Norma Brown	....	wardrobe: women's
Andy Matyasi	....	wardrobe: men's
Joan Joseff	....	costume jeweller (uncredited)

Music Department
Alan Hawkshaw	....	musician: "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" (uncredited)
Dan Wallin	....	scoring mixer (uncredited)

Other crew
John Dutton	....	script supervisor
Elaine Michea	....	assistant to producer
Robert Towne	....	special consultant
Morgan Fairchild	....	double: Faye Dunaway (uncredited)
Wayne Fitzgerald	....	title designer (uncredited)
Crayton Smith	....	script supervisor: second unit (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Warner Brothers/Seven Arts (as Warner Bros.-Seven Arts)
• Tatira-Hiller Productions (as A Tatira-Hiller Production)

Distributors

• Warner Brothers/Seven Arts (1967) (USA) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (1967) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• Warner-Tonefilm (1967) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (1968) (France) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros./Seven Arts (1968) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Warner Brothers/Seven Arts (1969) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1973) (USA) (TV)
• Warner Home Video (1986) (USA) (VHS)
• Warner Home Vídeo (1989) (Brazil) (VHS)
• Warner Home Video (1997) (Sweden) (VHS)
• Warner Home Video (1997) (USA) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (1998) (Germany) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2006) (USA) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Waner Bros. / Seven Arts (1968) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Audio Visual Enterprises (1986) (Greece) (VHS)
• Varus Video (19??) (Russia) (VHS)
• Warner Home Video (19??) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)

Other Companies

• Warner Bros. Cosmetics  Miss Dunaway's makeup by

Also Known As:

MPAA:

Rated R for violence (re-rating) (2007)

Runtime:

112 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Finland:K-16 | Ireland:18 | Italy:VM18 | Norway:15 (re-rating) | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:PG | Sweden:15 | UK:18 (video rating) (1987) (1998) | UK:X (original rating: as Bonnie and Clyde .... Were Killers) | Iceland:16 | Canada:A (Nova Scotia) (original rating) | Brazil:14 | Norway:(Banned) (1967 - 1968) | Norway:16 (1968) (cut) | West Germany:16 (re-rating) | West Germany:18 (original rating) | USA:Approved (certificate #21395) (original rating) | USA:M (re-rating) (1969) | USA:R (re-rating) (2007) | Canada:14A (Manitoba) (re-rating) (2008) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:PG (Manitoba) (original rating) | UK:15 (re-rating) (2008) | New Zealand:M | Canada:14A (Nova Scotia) (re-rating) (2008) | USA:R | UK:18 (tv rating) | Netherlands:18 (orginal rating)

Filming Locations:

Albertson Ranch, Triunfo, California, USA

Company:

Warner Brothers/Seven Arts

Trivia:

At the time, this was Warner Brothers' second highest grossing film, after My Fair Lady (1964).

Goofs:

Anachronisms: Bonnie pays the grocery delivery boy with modern Sixties-era currency - dollar bills looked quite different during Depression, when story took place.

Quotes:

Clyde Barrow:Now you just tell me what was wrong with that car.
C.W. Moss:Dirt.
Clyde Barrow:Dirt?
C.W. Moss:Dirt in the fuel line... just blowed it away.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Rich Hall's Continental Drifters (2011) (TV)

Soundtrack:

The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)

A masterpiece that dares to be excessive!

'Bonnie and Clyde' is not a film about two real people famous for so many bank robberies and murders across the big country... It shows a new kind of fury in which people could be harm by weapons... The film, however, manages to carry the impression that these two youngsters took great pleasure in robbing banks and stores... It also suggests that it was very easy for them to fool the law—as certainly occurred in real life... Though merited punishment caught up with them, audiences laughed at their remarkable deeds and wanted them to get away...

In 'Bonnie and Clyde,' Penn created an emotional state, an image of the 1930s filtered through his 1960s sensibility... The sense of this period reflects Penn's vision of how the 1930s Depression-era truly was, and for all the crazy style and banjo score, this vision is greatly private...

What is also personal about 'Bonnie and Clyde' and constitutes its incomparable quality, is its unusual mixture of humor and fear, its poetry of violation of the law as something that is gaiety and playfulness...

'Bonnie and Clyde' is both true and abstract... It is a gangster movie and a comedy-romance... It is an amusing film that turns bloody, a love affair that ends with tragedy...

A modification between pleasure and catastrophic events is important to the essential aim of the film... In their second bank robbery, a daring and joyful action goes morosely embittered when Clyde is forced to kill an executive in the bank, and real blood pours out from his body...

Bonnie and Clyde take self-gratification posing for photographs with their prisoners… But when surrounded by detectives in a motel, they turn into vindictive bandits struggling for their lives... C. W. Moss, specially, brings to mind Baby Face Nelson, when he murders policemen with a blazing machine gun...

One of the stimulating moments in the film happens when Clyde chases Bonnie through a yellow corn field, while a cloud transverses the sun and slowly shadows the landscape... Here the characteristic quality of the Texas countryside and the vague aspect of the story are beautifully communicated......

Penn's masterpiece nominated for ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture, won two Oscars, one for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and another for Best Cinematography...