Bonnie and Clyde—40 Years Later

By Joe Leydon
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/producing/article/bonnie_and_clyde_ultimate_collectors_edition_20080327/
Forty-one years after the fact, it’s difficult, maybe impossible, to fully appreciate the impact Bonnie and Clyde had on moviegoers in 1967. Even if you’re old enough to have seen Arthur Penn’s violent folk ballad during its initial theatrical release, more than four decades’ worth of subsequent cinematic slaughter has very likely immunized you against the shock value of this film’s groundbreaking bloody mayhem.