Hollis Alpert(1916-2007)

Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1966

[on Gangster Story (1967)] I should say at once that, filmically, "Bonnie and Clyde" represents a high point in the directional work of Arthur Penn; that it is exceedingly well-made; that it has an astonishingly good performance by Warren Beatty as Clyde Barrow . . . What is bothersome about the picture is that David Newman and Robert Benton, the writers, aren't able to make clear their own attitudes toward the two criminals.