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7 ' bal r- . . . 0-19 (Rev 1-30-74) He ya ( € Assoc. Dir, - — . a op. m, . : ) Dee, AG Inv. __ 7 Rs . Asst. Dis.: A f. z Hae me a Adain, Vatered-Down cou Son Files & Com. __ . |‘Bonnie & Clyde’ as mat ae, tet ~ Inspection __.__ “ * : tnvell. ‘ i ~ * Leborate AN C's Tuesday evs on out. He coolly Hants up a don’t want to die, Mr. Purv: nd the Week (toneht at 8:30 on new stegie and caits for his &. Plan. & Evel, __ . 1 > in . abeivr as . . on WM AT) as doe as Atel Tominy-cun before opening “Tt will be all rimnt, son,” Spec. Inv. comes on more hike a wa- fire on the Kellys. “There's says Purvis, his arm around Training tered-down version of “Bon: plenty of time, those angs- Buckwheat, pee his Lege! Coun. we and Clyde."" No sex, na ters don't stand a chance shoulder rently. That'sa R nie ’ against me,’ ‘he drawls. ‘ elaphene Re. nudity and no blood. ' hich point of the Yiialogue om See’ sites for a film about fa- place in broad daylight. ies _last-ditch effort to breathe mous ganesters of the 1930s. ye Ae eV er eeare eo littl “some motivation into the But for audiences used to shootine of seen in e . characters, Kate rejects the seein’, machine pun bullets f ok ie c 4 torn largesse of a socialite dilct- rip people apart at their od a with nite s rob tante and, screams at him neighberhood ‘theater, hemsell See able hart 8 about how she came from a “Melvin Purvis, G-Man” is umsel noticeable Narn. poor family and grew up in going to scem pretty tame , IN WHAT IS probably the a tarpaper shack. ; and perhans not very au- key scene in the film, Purv- “George and J are killers thentic. ~~ is talks Buckwheat, one of -and bank robbers,” she ! What is authentic is the the gangsters, down from yells hysterically as ma- ‘nostalcic 1930s background; - “his perch on the second _trons drag her out of the ‘the men wear bagcy double- . ‘floor landing. ‘‘Son,"" Rob- jail's visiting room. “But breasted suits and big, flop- - ertson drawls, “this is Mel- hiv done this to ys.” : py fedoras, the music is tin-- vin Purvis down here. f° eximeJUDY FLANDER: ny and jazzy and the cars, ‘You're going to have to shoot a Jot straighter than | that to hit me. | Butekwiieat suceunbee*? ‘ everything from a Rolls , Royce toa bright blue Ford, are enough to swoon about. AGAINST THIS back-- ground are, for the most part, cardboard people. The + ill-starred Jovers in this film are “Machine Gun” Kelly. (Harris Yulin) and his wife, Kate (Margaret Blye), a touch gun moll reminiscent of the babes in old Jimmy: ‘Cagney movics. But instead ‘ -of being gunned down aftcr’ an auto chase, they are qui- etly apprehended in their ‘bed in a hotel room where «Kate is comforting her hus- : band who is in tears be- ‘cause he's just Jearned that ‘all the loot in the suitcasc is: ‘dh marked bills. The hero is Melvin Purv is, who is christened G-Man -(government man) by Kelly ‘at the film's end. He is: played by none other than that old Oklahoma cowpoke, and star of countless TV ‘Western series, Dale Rob ertson. Purvis wears a Magnricent beige coat with ;@ big fur collar and a big. _ _ _ wae : =. 2. .. hits sedcra the” - “ao : ’ wnat 2 ‘0, Dele F AENCLOGURE ovis G-Man, bela a AGF abe Ve The Washington Post Washington SterNews Bd — 2 Daily News (New York) The New York Times The Wall Street Journal ____ The Netional Observer The Los Angeles Times , APRO 1974 erie ay d : . Pe fe ag kena. ok tt i dk ae a Be ate seas aera _ —_