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0:04:36 What kind of work do ya do?
Clyde: What kind of work do ya do?
Bonnie: None of your business.
Clyde (flattering): I'll bet you're a movie star? A lady mechanic?
Bonnie (amused): No.
Clyde: A maid?
Bonnie: (She halts) What do you think I am?
Clyde (realistically and accurately): A waitress.
Bonnie: (Long silence when she grows sullen, and then begins walking again.) What line of work are you in, when you're not stealin' cars?
Clyde: Well, I'll tell ya, uh, I'm lookin' for suitable employment right at the moment.
Bonnie: Yeah, but what did ya do before?
Clyde: I was, uh, I was in State Prison.
Bonnie: State Prison! (She halts again)
Clyde: Uh-huh.
Bonnie: Well, I guess, uh, some littl' ol' lady wasn't so nice.
Clyde: (expressed as part of a tough guy act) It was armed robbery.
Bonnie: My, my. The things that turn up in the street these days.
0:08:20 Bonnie and Clyde Meet
Bonnie: Hey, what's your name anyhow?
Clyde: Clyde Barrow.
Bonnie: Hi, I'm Bonnie Parker. Pleased to meet ya.
0:09:14 I ain't much of a lover boy
Clyde: I might as well tell ya right off. I ain't much of a lover boy. But that don't mean nothin' personal about you. I-I-I never saw no percentage in it. Ain't nothin' wrong with me. I don't like boys. (He bumps his head on the driver's side door.)
Bonnie (frustrated and stunned): ...Your advertisin' is just dandy. Folks would never guess you don't have a thing to sell. You'd better take me home now. Now don't you touch me!
0:09:55 You're worth more than that
Clyde: All right. All right. If all you want's a stud service, you get on back to West Dallas and you stay there the rest of your life. You're worth more than that. A lot more than that. You know it and that's why you come along with me. You could find a lover boy on every damn corner in town. It don't make a damn to them whether you're waitin' on tables or pickin' cotton, but it does make a damn to me!
Bonnie: Why?
Clyde: Why? What's you mean, 'Why?' Because you're different, that's why. You know, you're like me. You want different things. You got somethin' better than bein' a waitress. You and me travelin' together, we could cut a path clean across this state and Kansas and Missouri and Oklahoma and everybody'd know about it. You listen to me, Miss Bonnie Parker. You listen to me.
0:11:46 Getting Away
Clyde: And now you wake up every mornin' and you hate it. You just hate it. You get on down there and you put on your white uniform...
Bonnie. Pink, it's pink.
Clyde: And them truckdrivers come in there to eat your greasy burgers and they kid ya, and you kid 'em back. But they're stupid and dumb boys with the big ol' tattooes on 'em, and you don't like it. And they ask ya on dates, and sometimes you go but you mostly don't because all they're ever tryin' to do is get in your pants whether you want 'em to or not. So you go on home and you sit in your room and you think, 'Now when and how am I ever gonna get away from this?' And now you know.
0:17:02 We rob banks!
Clyde Barrow: This here’s Ms. Bonnie Parker, I’m Clyde Barrow. We rob banks!
0:20:47 Why'd he try to kill me?
Clyde: He tried to kill me. Why'd he try to kill me? I didn't want to hurt him.
0:28:35 Wanted for Murder
Clyde: You ain't got a brain in your skull. On account of you, I killed a man. Now we're all gonna be wanted for murder, and that's you too boy...What was you thinkin' about? If you ever do a dumb-ass thing like that again, boy, I'm gonna kill ya!
0:30:37 I don't want no rich man
Bonnie: I don't want no rich man.
Clyde: You ain't gonna have a minute's peace.
Bonnie: Do you promise?
0:43:06 Being Alone
Bonnie: Don't you ever just want to be alone with me?
Clyde: Well I always feel like we're alone.
Bonnie: Well, do ya baby?
0:46:48 Blanche and Bonnie
Bonnie: DAMMIT! You almost got us killed!
Blanche: What did I do wrong? I thought you'd be happy if I got shot.
Bonnie: Sure! Yeah, it would have saved us all a lot of trouble.
Blanche: Buck, don't let that woman talk to me like that.
Buck: You shouldn't have done that, Blanche. It was a dumb thing to do.
Blanche: Oh Buck, please. I didn't marry you to see you get shot at. Please, let's go, let's leave, let's get out of here and leave town. Please make him stop the car. I gotta stop.
Buck: I can't. I killed a guy. Now we're in this.
Blanche (in a shrill voice): Pleeaassee.
Bonnie: SHUT UP. JUST SHUT UP YOUR BIG MOUTH!...
0:47:47 She ain't got a brain in her head
Bonnie: Get rid of her.
Clyde: I can't get... She's Buck's wife.
Bonnie: ..Get rid of them both.
Clyde: Why, whatsa matter with you anyway?
Bonnie: 'She' is what's the matter with me! She's nuthin' but a dumb, stupid, back-country...
Clyde: Now you look!
Bonnie: She ain't got a brain in her head.
Clyde: What makes you look better? What makes you so damned special? You was just a West Dallas waitress, spendin' half your time pickin' up truck drivers.
Bonnie: Oh big Clyde Barrow! You're just like your brother...
Clyde: Uh, huh...
Bonnie: ...ignorant, uneducated hillbilly, except the only special thing about you is your peculiar ideas about lovemakin' - which is no lovemakin' at all.
Bonnie: Please Clyde, I didn't mean that. Listen, it-it was just all that shootin'. I saw all those guns, I got so scared. Please honey, I didn't mean it.
0:52:11 Frank Hamer: Texas Ranger
Clyde Barrow: I don't think he's lost. I think the bank's been offerin' extra reward money for us. I think Frank just figured on some easy pickin's, didn't ya Frank? You're no Texas Ranger. You're hardly doin' your job. You ought to be home protectin' the rights of poor folk, not out chasin' after us!
0:57:59 The People Love 'Em
Farmer: All I can say is, they did right by me -- and I'm bringin' me and a mess of flowers to their funeral.
he gonna wish he was dead
Bonnie: Listen. We take his picture. We send it to all the newspapers, and then everybody's gonna see Captain Frank Hamer of the Texas Rangers with the Barrow Gang, and all of us just as friendly as pie. . . . When his Texas Ranger friends see this, he gonna wish he was dead.
1:00:08 Blanche wants a piece of the action
Blanche: Well, why not? I earned my share same as everybody. Well, I coulda got killed same as everybody. And I'm wanted by the law same as everybody...I'm a nervous wreck and that's the truth. I have to take sass from Miss Bonnie Parker all the time. I deserve mine.
1:01:01 Where can we go now?
Clyde: Blanche is married to Buck, and Buck is family.
Bonnie: My family could use some of that money.
Clyde: Well you know how them law's been hangin' around your Mama's house till all hours. It's too risky to go up there now.
Bonnie: Where can we go now? We rob the damn banks. What else do we do?
Clyde: Well, whatcha want to do?
1:07:28 I'm an undertaker
Clyde: Maybe you all want to join up with us.
Eugene: Boy, they sure would be surprised to hear that back home.
Velma: What would Bill and Margaret say if they heard that?
Eugene: Lordy, they would have a fit.
Bonnie: Hey, what do you do anyhow?
Eugene: I'm an undertaker.
Bonnie (to Clyde): Get them out of here.
1:11:55 We're just runnin' from
Clyde: At this point, we ain't headed to nowhere. We're just runnin' from.
1:12:39 You best keep runnin,' Clyde Barrow
Bonnie's Ma: You know, Clyde, I read about you all in the papers, and I just get scared.
Clyde: Now Ms. Parker, don't you believe what you read in all them newspapers. That's the law talkin' there. They want us to look big so they gonna look big when they catch us. And they ain't gonna catch us. Cause I'm even better at runnin' than I am at robbin' banks. Shoot, if we'd done half that stuff they said we'd done in that paper, we'd be millionaires by now, wouldn't we?...Look, I ain't gonna risk my little girl here just to make money - uncertain as times are...
Bonnie's Ma: Maybe you know the way with her, then. I'm just an old woman and I don't know nothin'.
Clyde: But Ms. Parker, this here's the way we know best how to make money. But we gonna be quittin' all this, as soon as the hard times are over. I can tell ya that. Why just the other night, me and Bonnie were talkin'. And we were talkin' about the time we're gonna settle down and get us a home. And uh, she says to me, she says, 'You know, I couldn't bear to live more than three miles from my precious Mother.' Now how'd ya like that, Mother Parker?
Bonnie's Ma: (squinting into the sun) I don't believe I would. I surely don't. You try to live three miles from me and you won't live long, honey. You best keep runnin,' Clyde Barrow. And you know it. Bye, baby. (Bonnie's mother hugs her.)
1:16:18 Hey, I'm your family
Bonnie Parker: I don't have no mama. No family either.
Clyde Barrow: Hey, I'm your family.
Bonnie Parker: You know what, when we started out, I thought we was really goin' somewhere. This is it. We're just goin', huh?
Clyde Barrow: I love you.

1:34:24 You look like trash
Ivan: You look like trash all marked up like that. Cheap trash.
C. W.: Bonnie says it looks good.
Ivan: What does Bonnie know? She ain't nothin' but cheap trash herself. Look what they do to you. You don't ever get your name in the paper. You just get them pictures printed on your skin by Bonnie and Clyde. Shoot! They ain't nothin' but a couple of kids.
C. W.: But Daddy...
Ivan: I'm so glad your Ma ain't alive to see this here thing. All jellied up like that.
C. W.: I don't see what's so, uh, bad about it.
Ivan: You wouldn't!
1:39:15 You told my story
Bonnie Parker: You've heard the story of Jesse James / Of how he lived and died / If you're still in need / Of something to read / Here's the story of Bonnie and Clyde. / Now Bonnie and Clyde are the Barrow gang / I'm sure you all have read / How they rob and steal / And those who squeal / Are usually found dyin' or dead. / They call them cold-hearted killers / They say they are heartless and mean / But I say this with pride / That I once knew Clyde / When he was honest and upright and clean. / But the laws fooled around / Kept takin' him down / And lockin' him up in a cell / Till he said to me: "I'll never be free / So I'll meet a few of them in Hell." / If a policeman is killed in Dallas / And they have no clue to guide / If they can't find a fiend / They just wipe their slate clean / And hang it on Bonnie and Clyde / If they try to act like citizens / And rent them a nice little flat / About the third night / They're invited to fight / By a sub-guns' rat-a-tat-tat. / Some day, they'll go down together / They'll bury them side by side / To a few, it'll be grief / To the law, a relief / But it's death for Bonnie and Clyde.
Clyde Barrow: You know what you done there? You told my story, you told my whole story right there, right there. One time, I told you I was gonna make you somebody. That's what you done for me. You made me somebody they're gonna remember.
1:42:17 The Love-Making
Bonnie: You did just perfect.
1:43:10 A Second Life
Bonnie: What would you do if some miracle happened and we could walk out of here tomorrow morning and start all over again - clean. No record and nobody after us, huh?
Clyde: Well, uh, I guess I'd do it all different. First off, I wouldn't live in the same state where we pull our jobs. We would live in another state. We'd stay clean there and then when we'd want to take a bank, we'd go into the other state.