Directed by Arthur Penn
The famous outlaws are given a revisionist treatment that attempts to give them some moral justification and emotional depth that seems to sit more comfortably in the 60s than the 30s. Watching it today, when we are used to seeing multi-dimensional difficult characters, it's all a little too much to be very believable. And god, Faye Dunaway is just awful. She can never just play the part in a way that serves the overall film. Every scene she's in she tries to steal it with a bunch of pretentious over-acting.
At the time it was seen as shockingly violent. As much as I hate to build the impression that older things can't measure up to that of today, these days it would merely be par for the course. No child of the 80s or later would even flinch at anything shown here.
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