Posted on 08/13/2017 6:07:30 PM PDT by Borges
Edited on 08/13/2017 8:45:13 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
So proclaimed the trailer for "Bonnie and Clyde" when it hit the theaters in Aug. 1967.
On the surface, the tagline to Arthur Penn's groundbreaking gangster film about young lovers on the run from authority snugly fit into the Summer of Love. Well, at least two-thirds of it.
(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...
I think You’re correct.
If you started grade ‘N’ in a year ending with ‘N,’ we’re about the same age.
I’m about to start grade 57.
Yard...
THE WINNER!
A local TV station did a maybe 15 minute story of Faye Dunnaway. They showed several of her Mother and both me and my brother commented that Faye’s Mother was prettier than Faye was.
She came back to Bascom maybe 20 years ago and had to stop at the only store still there to ask directions. There old house is still there but maybe deserted but not certain.
"The Graduate" is one boring ass film. I could only watch about twenty minutes and turned it off.
If you load these coordinates into Google maps and go to street level, it shows the exact spot these two were sent to hell......
32.441217°N 93.092659°W
Bonnie Parker’s funeral was a big event in Dallas. Over 20,000 people attended. I had relatives that were in the crowd of onlookers.
Bonnie and Clyde were not allowed to be buried together. She is buried at a cemetery off Harry Hines on the west side near Royal Lane. Clyde is buried nearby in a cemetery off Webb Chapel Road on the east side north of Bachman Lake.
***This kind of film wasn’t supposed to be made in 1967.***
Say WHAT!
what about movies like MAD DOG COLL or BABY FACE NELSON! Ultra violent movies for the 1950s!
What made the difference between the violent movies in 1967 and 1969 was the murder of Bobby Kennedy when everything mildly violent was blamed for the murder. Movies, TV, pulp fiction books, comic books, cartoons, the NRA.
The movie industry, in trying to stave off government regulation, said they would police themselves with a joke of a ratings system.
So they pumped up the violence and sex to get the then coveted R rating.
I saw some good films and one very bad one in the summer of 1967. The bad one was “Casino Royale,” starring Woody Allen as James Bond. When it was over, I rated it the worst film I had ever seen.
My favorite that summer was “The War Wagon” starring John Wayne. I also liked “Tobruk,” a shoot-’em-up set during WWII.
I finally saw “Bonnie and Clyde” in a drive-in theater in the fall of 1969, which was probably toward the end of its release.
"Each of us six officers had a shotgun and an automatic rifle and pistols. We opened fire with the automatic rifles. They were emptied before the car got even with us. Then we used shotguns ... There was smoke coming from the car, and it looked like it was on fire. After shooting the shotguns, we emptied the pistols at the car, which had passed us and ran into a ditch about 50 yards on down the road. It almost turned over. We kept shooting at the car even after it stopped. We weren't taking any chances."
***This kind of film wasn’t supposed to be made in 1967.***
Say WHAT!
what about movies like MAD DOG COLL or BABY FACE NELSON! Ultra violent movies for the 1950s!
What made the difference between the violent movies in 1967 and 1969 was the murder of Bobby Kennedy when everything mildly violent was blamed for the murder. Movies, TV, pulp fiction books, comic books, cartoons, the NRA.
The movie industry, in trying to stave off government regulation, said they would police themselves with a joke of a ratings system.
So they pumped up the violence and sex to get the then coveted R rating.
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It’s not all that great. Ersatz charm.
The film was historical fiction. It didn’t claim to be ‘true’.
Problem is too many uneducated people will take it to be true. A case in point is LITTLE BIG MAN from 1971. You would be shocked at the number of people who got their history lessons from a movie script.
LOL. Woody didn’t play Bond in that movie, David Niven did. Woody was the so-called villain. Terrible movie, but oddly rewatchable for me.
It obviously enthralled a lot of people and still does. It was more European in tone than American movies had been.
‘Little Big Man’ was an adaptation of a novel.
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