Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

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

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.

Directed by: Arthur Penn

Written by: David Newman, Robert Benton

Music by: Charles Strouse

Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Denver Pyle, Dub Taylor, Evans Evans, Gene Wilder, Mabel Cavitt

Genre: Crime, Drama

Released: 1967-08-13

Runtime: 111 minutes

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Bonnie and Clyde (1967): trivia & fun facts

Fun facts

• Beatty originally wanted the film to be shot in black and white, but Warner Bros. Pictures rejected the idea.
• By the end of 1968, it had become the studio's second-highest-grossing film of all time, behind My Fair Lady, with rentals of $19 million.
• When the filmmakers noticed Mabel Cavitt, a local schoolteacher, among the people gathered, she was cast as Bonnie Parker's mother.
• The screenplay was written by David Newman and Robert Benton (with uncredited contributions by Beatty and Robert Towne); Beatty also produced the film.
• Beatty changed his approach and convinced the writers that while the script at first reading was very much of the French New Wave style, an American director was necessary for the subject.
• At first, Warner Bros. did not promote Bonnie and Clyde for general release but mounted only limited regional releases that seemed to confirm its misgivings about the film's lack of commercial appeal.
• Initial critical reception was mixed but later swung positive, and the film became a significant commercial success, becoming one of the highest-grossing films of 1967.
• Arthur Penn portrayed some of the violent scenes with a comic tone, sometimes reminiscent of Keystone Cops-style slapstick films, then shifted disconcertingly into horrific and graphic violence.
• The writers sent their script to François Truffaut, who made contributions but passed on the project, next directing Fahrenheit 451.
• By July 1968, the film had earned rentals of $10 million outside of the US and Canada.
• Listal lists it as one of the top five grossing films of 1967, with $50.7 million in US sales and $70 million worldwide.
• In 2012, the Motion Picture Editors Guild ranked the film the fifth best-edited film of all time, based on a survey of its membership.
• The film premiered as the opening film of the Montreal International Film Festival on August 4, 1967.
• The cast also features Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, and Estelle Parsons.
• Gene Wilder was in his film debut as Eugene Grizzard, one of Bonnie and Clyde's hostages.

Source: Wikipedia

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