Posted on 08/13/2017 6:07:30 PM PDT by Borges
Edited on 08/13/2017 8:45:13 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
So proclaimed the trailer for "Bonnie and Clyde" when it hit the theaters in Aug. 1967.
On the surface, the tagline to Arthur Penn's groundbreaking gangster film about young lovers on the run from authority snugly fit into the Summer of Love. Well, at least two-thirds of it.
(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...
He hated it for glorifying soulless murderers. He grew up in a town/near a town that had had a "visit" from the gang.
They killed the old bank guard for no reason, and then on the way out of town, saw a cop doing crossing guard duty. They stopped, called him over, and shot him dead, and continued on their way.
back in the day, I and my family was able to stay a long weekend at the jack o lantern lodge at Eagle River Wi.
That’ll buff right out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wiRzGXUnPI&list=PLXa3BRLREmBK-aLfloc3-0sFUsbn0wppG ;P
I DID see BONNIE & CLYDE in a movie theatre, when it came out and hated it.
And for those who claim that if one remembers the '60s, they weren't there, which is complete claptrap!), I was there and I DO remember it; vividly!
All of the books? There was one novel in 1969. It was badly written pulp.
That sounds a lot like the Little Bohemia Lodge raid on the John Dillinger gang. As usual they didn’t seek the help from local LEOs, who could have warned them there was a rear exit and helped them surround the place. When they arrived they opened fire on a car with three innocent diners leaving the lodge, killing one and wounding two. After a brief shootout between the FBI and Baby Face Nelson, all the gang left on foot through the woods and got away. Nelson who escaped alone later encountered two agents and shot them, killing one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Bohemia_Lodge
Wooowww.
Never, ever heard that.
The MSM really re-wrote history with that pair.
A taste of things to come.
At the time, it was the most horrible thing I'd ever seen in a movie, at least since (as a fifth- or sixth-grader) I saw White Heat on Saturday-afternoon TV. The scene where Cagney says "oh, ya want a little air, huh?" while pulling out his pistol and emptying it through the closed lid on the trunk in which one of his partners is imprisoned turned my stomach.
Me too! Now the 70s, not so much.
There were other bnooks in the series, with different titles.
Too easy. What was the name of the theatre ? Too late no fair looking it up.
The Biograph?
It was a big deal to a young boy to see it.
I was thoroughly interested in their true story and as luck would have it, my father owned a copy of their book/story as told by Bonnie’s mother and Clyde’s sister. I’m sure I read it through 3 or 4 times that summer. We finally did get to see it. Yes, at the drive in.
I remember being disappointed by it, as in all book-to-movie cases, they leave out some stuff and get some of the stuff wrong via poetic license.
I still to this day am kind of fascinated by the criminal mind. I just finished reading the story of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate
There's a French series, Spiral, that had a "barbecue" scene in a season opener. Drug lieutenant taking out one of his gang for some reason, with the guy locked in the trunk.
Pretty much the same when they killed Dillinger.
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The film was historical fiction. It didn’t claim to be ‘true’.
Dunaway was just too hot to be a gangster moll. Very talented actress, she was but Bonnie, in her wildest dreams, probably wouldn’t have thought the movies would portray her like Faye.
We must be about the same age. I was in 7th grade and I must have seen that movie 20 times. Damn that Faye Dunaway!
Bijou
Popped in my head.
Smarty pants....
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