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www.toxicuniverse.com - : The year was 1967. I had recently become relatively independent in my second year of college. I had disavowed my freshman-year membership in the Young Republicans and had a little bit of income for discretionary purposes, so I could see the films in town that were within walking distance. That's after growing up in a home environment that only automatically allowed us to see Walt Disney films, Biblical epics, and John Wayne films. more...
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www.boxoffice.com - : Violence and a type of criminal romance, dramatized by frustrated sex, are the themes of this action film, based on a real episode in the lawless period of depression America. Warren Beatty hardly seems the desperado type, but Faye Dunaway is convincing in her role as his companion in robbery and murder. Beatty is also the producer, with Arthur Penn (stage director for ''Toys in the Attic'' and ''The Miracle Worker'') as director, from a story by Robert Newman and David Benton, both writers for Esquire Magazine. Of its kind, this is an excellent dramatization of outlaws against society who kill and loot, partly for the thrill and partly for monetary gain. Pitting themselves against the law, they lead officers a merry chase and play a dangerous game when they humiliate one they neglect to kill afterwards. Bonnie writes some doggerel verse that Clyde is foolish enough to send to a newspaper, which publishes it. This pinpoints their whereabouts, so their saga ends abruptly as it began. That crime does not pay can be deduced from the end of the unique couple -- but it has been paying at the motion picture theatre boxoffice for so long that this will probably be no exception. more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : ''Bonnie and Clyde'' is a milestone in the history of American movies, a work of truth and brilliance. It is also pitilessly cruel, filled with sympathy, nauseating, funny, heartbreaking, and astonishingly beautiful. If it does not seem that those words should be strung together, perhaps that is because movies do not very often reflect the full range of human life. more...
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