Bonnie and Clyde (film) Clyde Barrow firing a Thompson submachine gun as he escapes from the Red Crown Tourist Court. Bonnie and Clyde (film) Bonnie and Clyde is a 1967 American biographical crime film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the title characters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. The film features Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, and Estelle Parsons, with Denver Pyle, Dub Taylor, Gene Wilder (first film role), Evans Evans, and Mabel Cavitt in supporting roles. The screenplay was written by David Newman and Robert Benton. Robert Towne and Beatty provided uncredited contributions to the script; Beatty
Faye Dunaway singer of the rock group The J. Geils Band. At this time, she felt "exhausted from the constant and intense pressures of the work", and decided to pull out of "The Wind and the Lion" (1975), in which she was to costar with Sean Connery, at the last moment to concentrate on her married life. Her next feature was Sydney Pollack's political thriller, "Three Days of the Condor" (1975). Her character was to be held hostage by a CIA analyst, played by Robert Redford, and Dunaway was required to display fear that she might be raped. However, she had difficulty