In the 1930s, bored European-American waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with a European-American ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
Direction
Penn's balletic violence invented modern action editing.
Acting
Beatty's desperate charm, Dunaway's hungry eyes—career-defining.
Cinematography
Burnett Guffey's dusty poetry makes poverty look gorgeous.
Director
Arthur Penn
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released in 1967, this film arrived months after the Summer of Love and months before 1968's chaos—its anti-establishment violence spoke directly to a generation rejecting their parents' moral codes.
The real Bonnie and Clyde were so unphotogenic that the studio considered this a liability—Beatty and Dunaway's glamour is pure Hollywood invention, and that lie became the film's sharpest weapon.
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