Shredding the Glamour From Bonnie and Clyde ; Arthur Penn's 1967 Film Bonnie and Clyde Was a Landmark Movie Making Big Stars of Its Two Leads - Faye Dunaway As Bonnie Parker and Warren Beatty As Clyde Barrow. It Married Sex and Violence and Influenced a Whole Generation of Radical New Film-Makers.

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Arthur Penn's 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde was a landmark movie making big stars of its two leads - Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker and Warren Beatty as Clyde Barrow. It married sex and violence and influenced a whole generation of radical new film-makers.

It turned Parker and Barrow into the iconic figures they had been more than 30 years earlier when their exploits captured the imagination of the public suffering during The Great Depression.

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Shredding the Glamour From Bonnie and Clyde ; Arthur Penn's 1967 Film Bonnie and Clyde Was a Landmark Movie Making Big Stars of Its Two Leads - Faye Dunaway As Bonnie Parker and Warren Beatty As Clyde Barrow. It Married Sex and Violence and Influenced a Whole Generation of Radical New Film-Makers.

But as Timewatch revealed, their stories were far from the glamorous Hollywood version.

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