Packaged this way when re-released, it was only a matter of time before Bonnie and Clyde has found its audience. It was with young people and, inevitably, with “establishment opponents”. In 1967 it was a sizeable riding, and in the future it was a riding that would become influential. Warner Bros. had been so pessimistic about the film’s box office chances that he offered its first producer Warren Beatty 40% of the gross price, instead of a tiny amount. Ultimately, the film grossed over $ 70 million, becoming the third-most popular film at the U.S. box office of 1967.
Ironically, it was in 1967 that the 39th Academy Awards would be dominated by a movie: A man for all seasons (1966). He was nominated for ten Oscars; in the end, he won six. By all accounts it has been a phenomenal journey, adding to its already existing international accolades and global business success. And yet, the subject of the film was the life of a saint: Thomas More. The fact that the film deals with matters of faith and conscience made its box office and Oscar accomplishments all the more remarkable.
on the 1960 Robert Bolt play of the same name. The play was phone number library experimental in the staging devices used; the film version, however, was not to employ such experimentation. Instead, the source material became a well-performed, professionally-run film production that looked and sounded quite the epic history. As such, although produced in England in 1965, it could have been shot anytime during the previous 30 years. It was traditional on-screen storytelling that conformed – artistically and morally – to industry standards that had existed for decades. It was a film for the sensitivity of all audiences.
In hindsight, this film was going to be the last of its kind. Not that historical drama had ceased to be filmed, far from it, but rather that a different aesthetic would soon prevail and dominate cinema, especially in America as Hollywood entered a new era. Subsequently, in this New Hollywood, films will increasingly be seen no longer as entertainment, but as statements, not reflecting society, but changing it.