Hardboiled Hollywood

Thanks to Hollywood, failed bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are forever fixed in popular imagination. Middle-aged Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein is now forever embodied in Anthony Perkin's unforgettable portrayal of Norman Bates in Hitchcock's Psycho. The true-life origins of these films are now revealed in Max Décharné's revelatory volume--the stories perhaps more fascinating than even their Hollywood representations.