Something Weird The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde

"Entertainment history will record that in the closing months of 1967, a motion picture rose to inordinate and frightening importance on the American and international scene. Because of the film's instant and spontaneous global influence on young people, the motion picture has raised certain sobering questions. Was this film just another transitory fad for audiences that need to be shocked to feel any kind of emotion? When viewers in Tokyo, London, and New York City applaud and cheer the death of law enforcement officers on the screen, is it just more fuel for the violence that grips our cities? Is the cult of Bonnie & Clyde cause or effect or both? Is it myth or madness...?" Yes, as these opening words imply — somberly spoken by narrator BURL IVES (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof's Big Daddy) — The Other Side of Bonnie & Clyde is cult director LARRY BUCHANAN's cinematic "answer" to Arthur Penn's 1967 masterpiece Bonnie and Clyde. Ignoring the obvious metaphors, emotional wallop, and poetic beauty of the Penn film, Buchanan instead concentrates on the facts, ma'am, just the facts, and wants you to know that Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were truly rotten individuals, and the police officers that killed them — in particular Captain Frank Hamer — were decent, law-abiding God-fearing heroes. So there. - Something Weird

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[StaunchComic]

@Landis4r True the cops were suppose to ask both to surrender and didn't. In the book "Go down together" one of the cops shot Barrow on the side of the head killing him instantly. Barrow's head fell on the horn. Bonnie who was unarmed eating a sandwich began screaming. Instead of taking her alive they all opened fire on her. Afterward Hammer went up to the front and back of the car and fired many shots into the now dead Bonnie and Clyde. Bonnie knew what she was doing, she wrote many poems.

[stevenmarie03]

Read the FBI files, there's factual info there, also Frank Ballingers' "Hideout" for more facts & photos.

[EJPilo]

Idiotic

[avalonway62]

not worth a damn

[Landis4r]

@Sherri119

Hamer was a coward who claimed he would give them a chance to surrender but didn't and then snuck up behind the car holding two very dead people and repeatedly fired into Bonnie.

[Sherri119]

@mrsmelzbad Wow, small world. =) My hats off and thanks for your father serving his country, in more ways than one.  That's no small thing!

[mrsmelzbad]

The real robbers of honest hard working folks? IRS

[mrsmelzbad]

@Sherri119 my father was a deputy sheriff in TX after the Korean war, met Frank Hamer at a cop convention in New Orleans, actually at a club or bar after the event.

[bwild61]

Yep, that's weird alright.....

[Sheboggie1]

"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced"---Frank Zappa