Bonnie and Clyde

Bonnie and Clyde is a 1967 American biographical neo-noir crime film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the title characters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. The film also features Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, and Estelle Parsons.

Bonnie and Clyde is considered a landmark picture. It broke many film taboos.  The movie's ending became iconic as "one of the bloodiest death scenes in cinematic history".

The film received Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress (Estelle Parsons) and Best Cinematography.  It was ranked 27th on the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the 100 greatest American films of all time and 42nd on its 2007 list.

During the Great Depression, Clyde Barrow (Beatty) and Bonnie Parker (Dunaway) of Texas meet when Clyde tries to steal Bonnie's mother's car. Bonnie, who is bored by her job as a waitress, is intrigued by Clyde and decides to take up with him and become his partner in crime.

Bonnie and Clyde pull off some holdups, but their amateur efforts, while exciting, are not very lucrative. They turn from small-time heists to bank robbing.

Bonnie and Clyde's crime spree shifts into high gear once they hook up with a dim-witted gas station attendant, C.W. Moss (Pollard). Their exploits also become more violent.

After C.W. botches parking their getaway car during a bank robbery and delays their escape, Clyde shoots the bank manager in the face when he jumps onto the slow-moving car's running board.  Clyde's older brother Buck (Hackman) and his wife, Blanche (Parsons), also join them.

C.W. takes Bonnie and Clyde to hide out at his father's house, who thinks the couple have corrupted his son.  The father makes a deal with the police: in exchange for leniency for C.W.

The police set a trap for the outlaws.  When Bonnie and Clyde stop on the side of the road to help C. W.'s father fix a flat tire, the posse in the bushes riddle the couple with bullets. 

Bonnie and Clyde was one of the first films to feature extensive use of squibs—small explosive charges, often mounted with bags of stage blood, that detonate inside an actor's clothes to simulate bullet hits. Released in an era when film shootings were generally depicted as bloodless and painless, the Bonnie and Clyde death scene was one of the first in mainstream American cinema to be depicted with graphic realism.