Bonnie and Clyde

"They’re young… they’re in love… and they kill people."

1967 1h 51m EN

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Synopsis

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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 throughout the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.

“They’re young… they’re in love… and they kill people.”

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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

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Arthur Penn
Writers: Robert Benton, David Newman
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 8

MONEY

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Shot for just $2.5M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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MONEY

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Grossed $70M — a 28.0× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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ERA

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59 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Arthur Penn, shot by Burnett Guffey. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Charles Strouse. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Dede Allen shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway and Michael J. Pollard carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "They’re young… they’re in love… and they kill people.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Arthur Penn directs. Burnett Guffey behind the camera. Charles Strouse scores. Dede Allen cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Shot for just $2.5M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
2Grossed $70M — a 28.0× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
359 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
4Directed by Arthur Penn, shot by Burnett Guffey. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Charles Strouse. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Dede Allen shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway and Michael J. Pollard carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "They’re young… they’re in love… and they kill people.".
9IMDB entry: tt0061418 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 28 themes, including "sheriff", "waitress", "ambush", "prohibition era".
11Released under 16 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Burnett Guffey
Original score: Charles Strouse
Editing: Dede Allen
Costume design: Theadora Van Runkle
Makeup / hair: Robert Jiras
Sound: Dan Wallin
Runtime: 111 min · 1h 51m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $2,500,000
Box office: $70,000,000
Return: 2800% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Awards

Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay

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John Chard2014-06-28
★ 10/10
Good afternoon, we are the Barrow gang. Bonnie & Clyde stands today as one of the most important films of the 60s, it's impact on culture alone marks it out as a piece of work to note, but as gangster films go this one is something of a landmark. Quite how writers Newman & Benton managed to craft a story of two deadbeat outlaws into cinematic heroes is up for any individual viewers scrutiny, but they bloody well do it because we all want to be in the Barrow gang, because we get lost in this romanticised outlawish tale unfolding in front of our eyes. The film is a fusion of incredible violence and jaunty slapstick, and smartly pauses for delicate moments to let us into the psyche of the main protagonists, we know they have hangups, and with that we know they are fallible human beings, and this sets us up a treat for the incredible jaw dropping finale, and the impact of this finale hits as hard now as it did back with the audience's of 1967. The cast are incredible, Warren Beatty gives a truly brilliant performance as Clyde, he looks good and suave tooting those guns, but it's in the tender troubled scenes where he excels supreme. Faye Dunaway as Bonnie is the perfect foil for Beatty's layers, she nails every beat of this gangsters troubled moll. Gene Hackman, Michael J Pollard, and Estelle Parsons put the cherry on the icing to give depth and range to the rest of the Barrow gang, and these fine actors are clothed in gorgeous cinematography courtesy of Burnett Guffrey. To round out the plaudits I finish with love for director Arthur Penn because it's his vision that gives us something of a nostalgic movie that plays up and down with its subjects with cheeky aplomb, in fact it's just like the banjo music that features so prominently throughout this wonderful film. Nominated for 9 Oscars it won just the two, the entire actors who played the Barrow gang were nominated, and truth be told they all would have been worthy winners, as it is they gave out just the one to the least strongest performance from Estelle Parsons, go figure. It's legacy both in culture and box office lives on and for me Bonnie & Clyde is not only one of the best films of the 60s, it's also one of the best in history. 10/10
CinemaSerf2023-03-28
★ 7/10
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.
Dr Nostromo2025-11-18
★ 8/10
78/100 A fictionalized (but fairly accurate with the main points) depiction of the short career of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow as notorious bank robbers and killers during the depression years of the early 30's. All the actors in this did stupendous jobs giving their characters a wealth of personality, humor, and depth making them likable and someone to cheer for despite their sociopathic ruthlessness. If you're unfamiliar with their tragic story, this is a good place to start for some broad information ...as well as damn good entertainment. -- DrNostromo.com