an FBI story many people don’t know:
The Feds got word their gang was at a rural fishing lodge next to one of the Great Lakes, I forget which.
They bust in to the Lodge restaurant with tommy guns blazing, and mow down four people DEAD, just basically leadHosed down the whole joint.
But they got the gang, right?
Nope!
They got NONE of them —the gang made a clean getaway.
The FBI attacked the wrong part of the hotel.
Did the FBI get away with it?
COMPLETELY.
It was a mini-Waco, basically. Or mini Oregon highway ambush, take your pick.
My Father grew up in the same tiny town, Bascom, Florida, where Faye Dunnaway was born. My Brother-in-Law attended Florida State and even had a class with her.
It was a good movie but they did a horrible job of portraying Frank Hamer. So bad that his family successfully sued the picture company. I think the amount they settled for was never disclosed but said to be substantial.
Mr. Crowther panned B&C, and the NYT readership complained. This resulted in his dismissal.
It was a LOUSY movie and slow-mo of bullets going into and out of bodies was and still is DISGUSTING!
It is a cheap piece of bald-faced slapstick comedy that treats the hideous depredations of that sleazy, moronic pair as though they were as full of fun and frolic as the jazz-age cut-ups in Thoroughly Modern Millie... [S]uch ridiculous, camp-tinctured travesties of the kind of people these desperadoes were and of the way people lived in the dusty Southwest back in those barren years might be passed off as candidly commercial movie comedy, nothing more, if the film weren't reddened with blotches of violence of the most grisly sort...This blending of farce with brutal killings is as pointless as it is lacking in taste, since it makes no valid commentary upon the already travestied truth. And it leaves an astonished critic wondering just what purpose Mr. Penn and Mr. Beatty think they serve with this strangely antique, sentimental claptrap.
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.
"The Graduate" is one boring ass film. I could only watch about twenty minutes and turned it off.
If you load these coordinates into Google maps and go to street level, it shows the exact spot these two were sent to hell......
32.441217°N 93.092659°W
Bonnie Parker’s funeral was a big event in Dallas. Over 20,000 people attended. I had relatives that were in the crowd of onlookers.
Bonnie and Clyde were not allowed to be buried together. She is buried at a cemetery off Harry Hines on the west side near Royal Lane. Clyde is buried nearby in a cemetery off Webb Chapel Road on the east side north of Bachman Lake.
***This kind of film wasn’t supposed to be made in 1967.***
Say WHAT!
what about movies like MAD DOG COLL or BABY FACE NELSON! Ultra violent movies for the 1950s!
What made the difference between the violent movies in 1967 and 1969 was the murder of Bobby Kennedy when everything mildly violent was blamed for the murder. Movies, TV, pulp fiction books, comic books, cartoons, the NRA.
The movie industry, in trying to stave off government regulation, said they would police themselves with a joke of a ratings system.
So they pumped up the violence and sex to get the then coveted R rating.
I saw some good films and one very bad one in the summer of 1967. The bad one was “Casino Royale,” starring Woody Allen as James Bond. When it was over, I rated it the worst film I had ever seen.
My favorite that summer was “The War Wagon” starring John Wayne. I also liked “Tobruk,” a shoot-’em-up set during WWII.
I finally saw “Bonnie and Clyde” in a drive-in theater in the fall of 1969, which was probably toward the end of its release.
"Each of us six officers had a shotgun and an automatic rifle and pistols. We opened fire with the automatic rifles. They were emptied before the car got even with us. Then we used shotguns ... There was smoke coming from the car, and it looked like it was on fire. After shooting the shotguns, we emptied the pistols at the car, which had passed us and ran into a ditch about 50 yards on down the road. It almost turned over. We kept shooting at the car even after it stopped. We weren't taking any chances."
***This kind of film wasn’t supposed to be made in 1967.***
Say WHAT!
what about movies like MAD DOG COLL or BABY FACE NELSON! Ultra violent movies for the 1950s!
What made the difference between the violent movies in 1967 and 1969 was the murder of Bobby Kennedy when everything mildly violent was blamed for the murder. Movies, TV, pulp fiction books, comic books, cartoons, the NRA.
The movie industry, in trying to stave off government regulation, said they would police themselves with a joke of a ratings system.
So they pumped up the violence and sex to get the then coveted R rating.
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BTW. I Hated That Bonnie & Clyde movie! It was CRAP!
PS: My good friend Joseph Hinton HATES it with a passion!
FYI
Back then, PLAYBOY had an interview with D.W. Jones (the C.W.Moss character) who was the driver for B&C.
SEE! I did buy it for the articles! Just wish I could remember what all he said. Something about not wanting to be put in an Arkansas prison because he might be in one of those unmarked graves that were found about that time.