Robert Benton, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who helped reset the rules in Hollywood as the co-creator of "Bonnie and Clyde," ...

Benton was an art director for Esquire magazine in the early 1960s when a love for French New Wave movies ... lives of Depression-era robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, imagining them as ...

Benton was an art director for Esquire magazine in the early 1960s when a love for French New Wave movies ... lives of Depression-era robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, imagining them as ...

Benton directed Paul Newman to an Oscar ... “So we decided to write a sort of French New Wave movie set in America about Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. We did a lot of research and found ...