Summary

RETRIBUTION OF CLYDE BARROW AND BONNIE PARKER, THE

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Title: RETRIBUTION OF CLYDE BARROW AND BONNIE PARKER, THE
File Number: DN-LB-487 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Documentary
Year: 1934
Subjects: OSTC
Description: 00:00:00:00 B W 1934 Tells of the downfall of Bonnie and Clyde. Good scene of their ambushed car (a 1934 Ford V-8) and dead bodies, and good funeral material. 07:17:54:00 B W 1932 Slate: "Authentic scenes and episodes in the bandit lives of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker." Recreations, Clyde released from Texas penitentiary, teams up with Raymond Hamilton. They rob small store, murdering owner, 1932. 07:20:15:00 B W 1934 Montage of newspaper headlines about Barrow and Parker. 07:20:46:00 B W 1934 WD Jones, prisoner in Dallas County jail, says he saw Clyde Barrow kill 5 men, "Clyde Barrow never seemed to car for killing anyone, all he thought of was himself." 07:21:31:00 B W 1934 Recreation, Bonnie and Clyde meet on street. Sit on car parked on rural road, drinking whiskey, shooting at birds for target practice. They gun down and murder two state highway patrol officers on motorcycles. 07:23:07:00 B W 1934 Two plain clothes cops with rifles on gravel road in Louisana, wait for Bonnie and Clyde. The ambush, firing rifles. Actuality, bodies of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in car, slumped on each other. Police display weapons found in the car. CU numerous bullet holes in side of Barrow's 1934 Ford V-8 car, VS wreckage of car, riddled with bullet holes on dashboard, steering wheel, seats. 07:26:15:00 B W 1934 VS personal belongings of Bonnie and Clyde, VO, "Vanity thy name is woman." Bonnie's make-up case, guns and rifles. VO says she was "Really a pretty girl. Bonnie was found at the time of her death to have had a new permanent wave, her fingernails were clean and prettily manicured, as were Clyde's which was probably due to Bonnie's influence." Bunch of license plates. 07:27:16:00 B W 1934 Pan Arcadia, Louisana, cars parked, people waiting on street. 07:27:40:00 B W 1934 Four of Bonnie and Clyde's killers pose for CAM, l to r, Deputy Sheriff Oakley, Sheriff Jordan, Deputy Sheriff Bob Alcorn and Deputy Sheriff Ted Henton. 07:28:26:00 B W 1934 Sheriff Smooch ? Smith of Dallas reads newspaper at desk. He introduces Alcorn and Henton and praises their work. Alcorn reads statement, acknowledging other law enforcement efforts in catching gangsters. Says he regrets that Bonnie and Clyde counldn't be taken alive, and that a woman had to be killed. Henton reads statement about following orders and upholding the law. 07:30:08:00 B W 1934 VS people on line to view Clyde Barrow's body, excellent. VS Barrow's funeral, casket through crowd, earth shoveled into grave. Good VO about parent's expectations for their children. 07:31:46:00 B W 1934 VS Bonnie Parker's funeral, crowds outside funeral home. Billy Mace, Bonnie's sister, escorted by prison guards at funeral. Barrow's parents attend service, sitting in chairs by graveside. VO reads few lines of poem he says Bonnie wrote shortly before her death: "To a few it means grief. To the law it's relief. But it's death to Bonnie and Clyde
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