- Film Review
- Reviewed By David Parkinson
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5 out of 5
"They're young! They're in love! And they kill people!" Not the slogan for Oliver Stone's notorious Natural Born Killers, but for one of the most stylish and uncompromising of gangster pictures. Released when graphic screen violence was very rare, this influential film was misread by some American critics, who dismissed it as a gimmicky, gory crime thriller. However, it proved to be the box-office hit of the year, and scooped ten Oscar nominations. Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty excel as the gun-toting criminals who roamed the American Midwest during the Depression, while David Newman and Robert Benton's sizzling script (which was originally offered to French directors François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard) and Arthur Penn's bravura direction are as fresh as ever.
Plot Summary
Oscar-winning crime drama starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker achieve growing notoriety as they carry out a series of robberies with their gang in 1930s America.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Clyde Barrow
- Warren Beatty
- Bonnie Parker
- Faye Dunaway
- CW Moss
- Michael J Pollard
- Buck Barrow
- Gene Hackman
- Blanche
- Estelle Parsons
- Frank Hamer
- Denver Pyle
- Ivan Moss
- Dub Taylor
- Velma Davis
- Evans Evans
- Eugene Grizzard
- Gene Wilder
- Grocery store owner
- James Stiver
- Deputy
- Clyde Howdy
Crew
- Director
- Arthur Penn
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