Bonnie and Clyde

BONNIE AND CLYDE

USA, 1967

Director: Arthur Penn

Production: Tatira-Hiller; Technicolor, 35mm; running time: 111 minutes. Released August 1967. Filmed during 1967 on location in Texas.

Producer: Warren Beatty; screenplay: David Newman and Robert Benton; photography: Burnett Guffey; editor: Dede Allen; sound: Francis E. Stahl; art director: Dean Tavoularis; set decoration: Raymond Paul; music: Charles Strouse, theme "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs; special effects: Danny Lee; costumes: Theodora Van Runkle; consultant: Robert Towne.

Cast: Warren Beatty ( Clyde Barrow ); Faye Dunaway ( Bonnie Parker ); Gene Hackman ( Buck Barrow ); Estelle Parsons ( Blanche ); Michael J. Pollard ( C. W. Moss ); Dub Taylor ( Ivan Moss ); Denver Pyle ( Frank Hamer ); Evans Evans ( Velma Davis ); Gene Wilder ( Eugene Grizzard ).

Awards: Oscars for Best Supporting Actress (Parsons) and Best Cinematography, 1967; New York Film Critics Award, Best Screenwriting, 1967.

Publications

Script:

Newman, David, and Robert Benton, Bonnie and Clyde , in The Bonnie and Clyde Book , edited by Sandra Wake and Nicola Hayden, New York, 1972.

Penn, Arthur, Bonnie and Clyde , New York, 1988.

Books:

Gelman, B., and R. Lackman, The Bonnie and Clyde Scrapbook , New York, 1967.

Wood, Robin, Arthur Penn , New York, 1969.

Rubin, Martin, and Eric Sherman, The Director's Event , New York, 1970.

Pechter, William S., 24 Times a Second , New York, 1971.

Cawelti, John G., editor, Focus on "Bonnie and Clyde, " Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1973.

Shadoin, Jack, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster/ Crime Film , Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977.

Murray, Edward, 10 Film Classics , New York, 1978.

Kolker, Robert Phillip, A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Coppola, Scorsese, Altman , Oxford, 1980; revised edition, 1988.

Zuker, Joel A., Arthur Penn: A Guide to References and Resources , Boston, 1980.

Giannetti, Louis, Masters of the American Cinema , Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1981.

Cagin, Seth, and Philip Dray, Hollywood Films of the 1970s: Sex, Drugs, Violence, Rock 'n' Roll, and Politics , New York, 1984.

Haustrate, Gaston, Arthur Penn , Paris, 1986.

Thomson, David, Warren Beatty: A Life and a Story , London, 1987.

Friedman, Lester D., Bonnie and Clyde , London, 1999.

Friedman, Lester D., editor, Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde , Cambridge, 1999.

Articles:

Lightman, Herb, "Raw Cinematic Realism in the Photography of Bonnie and Clyde ," in American Cinematographer (Los Angeles), April 1967.

Gulshanok, Paul, in Cineaste (New York), Fall 1967.

Alpert, Hollis, in Saturday Review (New York), 5 August 1967.

Crowther, Bosley, in New York Times , 14 August 1967.

Sarris, Andrew, in Village Voice (New York), 24 August 1967.

Rhode, Eric, "A Middle Western," in Listener (London), 14 September 1967.

Kael, Pauline, in Saturday Review (New York), 21 October 1967.

Ciment, Michel, "Montréal 1967, le règne de l'image," in Positif (Paris), November 1967.

Penn, Arthur, in Positif (Paris), November 1967.

Geduld, Carolyn, " Bonnie and Clyde: Society vs. the Clan," in Film Heritage (Dayton, Ohio), Winter 1967–68.

Johnson, Albert, in Film Quarterly (Berkeley), Winter 1967–68.

Macklin, Anthony, " Bonnie and Clyde: Beyond Violence to Tragedy," in Film Heritage (Dayton, Ohio), Winter 1967–68.

Kauffman, Stanley, in New American Review (Cranford, New Jersey), January 1968.

Benayoun, Robert, in Positif (Paris), March 1968.

Laura, Ernesto G., in Bianco e Nero (Rome), March-April 1968.

Chevalier, Jacques, in Image et Son (Paris), April 1968.

Samuels, Charles T., in Hudson Review (Nutley, New Jersey), Spring 1968.

Comolli, Jean-Louis, and André S. Labarthe, " Bonnie and Clyde: An Interview with Arthur Penn," in Evergreen Review (New York), June 1968.

Brode, Douglas, "Reflections on the Tradition of the Western," in Cineaste (New York), Fall 1968.

Farber, Stephen, in Sight and Sound (London), Autumn 1968.

Comuzio, Ermanno, "Gangster Story," in Cineforum (Bergamo), September 1968.

Penn, Arthur, in Cineforum (Bergamo), September 1968.

Free, William J., "Aesthetic and Moral Value in Bonnie and Clyde ," in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Fall's Church, Virginia), October 1968.

Lawson, John Howard, "Our Film and Theirs: Grapes of Wrath and Bonnie and Clyde ," in American Dialogue (New York), Winter 1968–69.

Cook, Jim, in Screen (London), July-August 1969.

Gould Boyum, Joy, and Adrienne Scott, in Films as Film: Critical Responses to Film Art , Boston, 1971.

Kinder,Marsha, and Beverle Houston, in Close-up: A Critical Perspective on Film , New York, 1972.