"Bonnie and Clyde" Topic

Outlaw killers Bonnie and Clyde have been dead for 78 years.

Didn't think about it til I saw the banner at the top of the TMP with their pictures and "death car".

I saw that car in a casino on the California / Nevada boarder in '89. The casino owner was a 1930's gangster buff.

The car is really shot to hell. You could see how some of the rounds went in one side of the door, out through whoever was in the seat and then punched through the other door.

Great book on the subject is "Public Enemies".

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>>Great book on the subject is "Public Enemies".<<

I agree. Some might find the book a bit dry as there is so much information offered, but reading the truth about Bonnie and Clyde and Ma Barker alone was worth the price. You'll also learn as much about Hoover, Purvis and the early FBI as the criminals they were chasing, which is very fascinating stuff.

I think the car was at Whiskey Pete's at State Line. I used to stop on the way to Vegas just to see it.

BTW. The only reason that Johnny Depp in a photo from the film "Public Enemies" is on the cover of the book titled "Public Enemies" is to help sell the book. The film is fiction the book is non-fiction.

Kinda true about the movie, but at least this time they used the real Little Bohemia to film at, and left out the gangsters using BARs and grenades (as they had in the Warren Oates film, which was not filmed at the historic property).

Public Enemies is a very good book, and highly recommended to anyone that likes the era.

"Kinda true about the movie"

"kinda" is the problem. :-)

Melvin Purvis never shot "pretty Boy" Floyd, which made me suspect the rest of the movie "Public Enemies".

I had never heard that Dillinger busted his friends out of jail as he did in the film, so I looked that up later and found out that he helped to supply the guns that were smuggled into the jail, but Dillinger was not there. He was in jail in Ohio at the time of the break.

The film shows "Baby Face" Nelson being shot long before Dillinger. In reality, Nelson outlived Dillinger.

If the film "Public Enemies" wasn't so historically inaccurate it would have been just OK, but to me it was inaccurate *and* boring. I much preferred the warren Oates version. It was inaccurate also, but at least it was fun to watch.