They're young, they're in love, and they kill people: A look back at howBonnie and Clyderevolutionized Hollywood
The conservative, old-guard studio more or less did this against its will. After all, the film was unapologetically violent, unvarnished in its depiction of sexuality, and borderline nihilistic. Not to mention that the man who had bankrolled it, Jack Warner, hated it. Credit: Everett Collection Its a revolution that almost never happened. In the early 60s, Robert Benton and David Newman were two young staffers atEsquire. Benton was the magazines art director; Newman was a writer and editor....