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The flesh-and-blood story of the outlaw lovers who robbed banks and shot their way across Depression-era America, based on extensive archival research, declassified FBI documents, and interviews
The daring movie revolutionized Hollywood-now the true story of Bonnie and Clyde is told in the lovers' own voices, with verisimilitude and drama to match Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.
Strictly nonfiction-no dialogue or other material has been made up-and...
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Forget everything you know about Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. In Go Down Together, Jeff Guinn combines exhaustive research with surprising, newly discovered material to tell the real tale of two kids from a filthy Dallas slum who fell in love and then willingly traded their lives for a brief interlude of excitement and fame - and whose devotion to each other was as real as their overblown reputation as criminal masterminds was not.
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Born in a small town in the desolate reaches of western Texas and shaped by her girlhood in an industrial wasteland on the outskirts of Dallas, Bonnie Parker was a natural performer and a star student. She dreamed of being a movie star or a singer or a poet. But her dramatic nature, contorted by her limited opportunities and her overwhelming love for Clyde Barrow, pushed her into a course from which there was no escape but death. Infusing the psychological...
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"To most Americans, Frank Hamer is known only as the 'villain' of the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde. However, from the horseback days of the Old West through the gangster days of the 1930s, Hamer stood on the front lines of some of the most important and exciting periods in American history. Whether fighting in the Bandit War of 1915 or protecting African Americans from lynch mobs and the Ku Klux Klan, he was, in fact, a classic American hero. Texas...
10) Bonnie and Clyde
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A mixture of comedy and brutal violence, this film is based on the exploits of the notorious American outlaws of the 1930's, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.
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Even today, the lives of notorious criminals Bonnie and Clyde are viewed as tragically romantic. But what actually happened to them and their gang in the 1930s? In this volume, readers learn the biography of these two infamous outlaws and the robberies they committed -- and the deaths they caused. The achievable text includes the historical context of the Great Depression for readers to understand the time and place Bonnie and Clyde lived in. Including...
13) Becoming Bonnie
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The summer of 1927 might be the height of the Roaring Twenties, but Bonnelyn Parker is more likely to belt out a church hymn than sling drinks at an illicit juice joint. She's a sharp girl with plans to overcome her family's poverty, provide for herself, and maybe someday marry her boyfriend, Roy Thornton. But when Roy springs a proposal on her, and financial woes jeopardize her ambitions, Bonnelyn finds salvation in an unlikely place: Dallas's newest...
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The film features a compilation of two fascinating HISTORY specials: Bonnie and Clyde: The Story of Love and Death; learn how the young lovers found each other in the slums of Dallas and led a notorious gang on a murderous crime spree covering five states. Man, Moment, Machine: Hunting Bonnie and Clyde; which details their ruthless journey to become one of the most romanticized criminals of all time.
18) Bonnie & Clyde
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Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were the most famous criminal couple in U.S. history. Newsreels in movie theaters across the country flashed images of a pixyish Bonnie and handsome Clyde, turning them into the underworld's dark prince and princess of crime. In reality, as this film reveals, Bonnie and Clyde grew up in the slums of West Dallas and had little in common with their glamorous media images.