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Bonnie And Clyde, a film at the vanguard of the New Hollywood, directed by Arthur Penn, from a screenplay written by David Newman and Robert Benton, premieres in New York City. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway star as the eponymous love-bird couple whose violent bank-robbing exploits across the Depression-era southern states of the US afford them a brief period of folk-hero fame and notoriety before a police ambush on a rural Lousiana backroad stops them dead in their tracks. Relegated at first by Warner Bros to a handful of regional cinemas, and only given a national release after Beatty threatens to sue, the films confounds studio expectations to become one of the biggest hits of the year. The strong supporting cast includes Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Gene Wilder (in his film debut) and Estelle Parsons. Oscars go to Parsons for Best Supporting Actress and Burnett Guffey for Best Cinematography.
