The Bonnie Parker Story
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
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Main Details
- Released in 1958 | B & W
- Running Time: 79 Min.
- Production Co: Albany Productions
- Distribution Co: American International Pictures (AIP) (1958) (USA) (theatrical)
- Directed by William Witney
- Written by Stanley Shpetner
- Starring Dorothy Provine, Jack Hogan, Richard Bakalyan, Joe Turkel
- Produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff, James H. Nicholson, Stanley Shpetner
- Original Music by Ronald Stein
- Cinematography by Jack A. Marta
- Film Editing by Frank P. Keller
Also Known As
- Femmina e mitra (Italy) | Die Höllenkatze (Germany)
Synopsis
The Bonnie Parker Story is loosely based on the life of Bonnie Parker, a well-known outlaw of the 1930s. The film stars Dorothy Provine as Parker; Parker's actual historical partner, Clyde Barrow, is renamed Guy Darrow for the film's story, and played by Jack Hogan. The film was released by American International Pictures as a double feature with Machine-Gun Kelly. In her review of the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde, Pauline Kael dismissed The Bonnie Parker Story as "a cheap - in every sense - 1958 exploitation film." Quentin Tarantino considers the film's director, William Witney, to be a "lost master"; he's quoted as saying of this film that, "I was blown away. It was like, whoa, who made this? I have to see everything he ever did." (Wikipedia)
