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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: "BONNIE AND CLYDE"
January 19, 2016  | By David Bianculli

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

 

Why did Bonnie & Clyde become so much a part of the public imagination, both at the time they were robbing banks during the Depression and again as folk anti-heroes of the 1960s? For the latter, it was because of the 1967 classic movie Bonnie and Clyde, which glamorized them by casting Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty in the leading roles. But in the 1930s, when the real Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were robbing banks, their fame exploded exponentially after a roll of film they had left behind in a hideout was developed by authorities and published by the press, showing the couple playing with their weapons, with Bonnie even pointing hers at Clyde. This new American Experience uses lots of those photos, and others, to tell a familiar story in a very informative way. For a full review, see Ed Bark's Uncle Barky's Bytes. Check local listings.

 
 
 
 
 
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