One of the most exciting discoveries of its time. Director Arthur Penn shows all the dirt, sweat and above all desperation of the trade - outlawry - whose members lived by the very ends of shreds of nerves, knowing that death, sudden and painful, was never further away than a knock on a shuttered door in the night. The disreputable, edgy, unreal atmosphere of the times and the disregard for the life that still remains precious is very well conveyed, with Warren Beatty keeping a tight grip on the moody Clyde, who robs banks (and kills as a result of it) only because he knows no other way of life. But the real find of the film was Faye Dunaway, giving a slow-burning performance as Bonnie, with one stand-out moment - mistily photographed against a yellow cornfield - when she realises she can never go back to her old life.

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