Word: bank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Lucy decides that the bank needs to enhance its image with a celebrity depositor, she sets out to enroll the master penny pincher himself, Jack Benny...
...extent of becoming a lay minister in the All Nations Church of God in San Francisco. Last week, in the city's crime-rife Mission district, a new James gang was riding high-training school dropouts, finding jobs for the unemployed, and putting money in the bank rather than making withdrawals at gunpoint...
...Green is a car salesman in Boston. He is a pretty good one, too, with an unusual spiel. He tells customers that Fords are reliable and have great pickup-which is why he always chose them when he was stealing getaway cars. For Teddy Green used to be a bank robber; he got out of jail just four months ago. "I feel like Lazarus," he says, risen as he is from the living death of what was once a 56-year sentence. Unlike many ex-cons, however, Teddy has refused to mope, instead is coping by making a virtue...
...series of compressed vignettes, punctuated by wild car chases to the accompaniment of Flatt & Scruggs banjo music, the film describes the criminal career of Bonnie. Clyde and the friends and relations they collect along the way. Their initially clumsy and comic efforts at robbing banks become increasingly bloody as the film proceeds, until the imagery of incredible violence is the only real visual counterpoint to the desolate image of the landscape. And this is violence unlike that of any other film. Instead of the crisp theatricality and well-timed effects of a movie like The Dirty Dozen, Penn forces...
...Bonnie believe they are heroes, and they are. The legend they create is not merely a fulfillment for themselves but for the frustrated desire of the society from which they have escaped. Early in the film, Clyde lends his revolver to an old farmer, who takes revenge on the bank that has repossesed his house by shooting up the sign they have placed on his lawn. It is the act of shooting, not its effect, that gives Bonnie and Clyde their stature. Both they and their admirers are curiously blind to the impact of the slaughter they inflict...