I saw this film in 1968 after coming home from Vietnam and being discharged from the Marine Corps. I never understood why people would want to glamorize such evil. Thank goodness for the recent Netflix film "The Highwaymen" for finally setting the record straight about the real-life Texas Rangers who hunted down and killed those psychopaths.
Arthur Penn portrayed Ranger Hamer as a incompetent red-necked fool by casting bucktoothed comedic actor Denver Pyle in the role. And Hamer's wife successfully sued for defamation of character. The choice of Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway was phoney as well. In real life, both Bonnie and Clyde were little sawed-off squirts and not the beautiful and almost regal characters we see on the screen.
Warren Beatty went on later to glamorize another psychotic killer in the film "Bugsy". But this is to be expected from a draft-dodging coward who deliberately got a dishonorable discharge from the California Air National Guard in January 1961, making him ineligible for any future military service.
I still can't understand why such murderous evil is glamorized. I hope I never will.
Review of Bonnie and Clyde
