A pawnshop heist in El Paso, Texas, 1914. Details from the evening edition of the El Paso Herald. $2,500 is a pretty good take for the days when everything cost a nickel.
Gun Crazy (1950)
Patty Hearst, born February 20, 1954. She went from heiress to kidnap victim to brainwashed revolutionary. Upon her arrest in 1975, she famously declared her occupation as “urban guerrilla.”
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Peter O’Toole and Audrey Hepburn in a publicity shot for How to Steal a Million (1966)
Willem Dafoe and Nicolas Cage in David Lynch’s Wild at Heart (1990)
Faye Dunaway in a publicity still for Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
A tableau of tacky, sun-tinged evil in Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers (2013)
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Behold the neo-noir tackiness of Spring Breakers: James Franco, Rachel Korine, Ashley Benson, and Vanessa Hudgens.
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It’s a violent Götterdämmerung for the cowboy era in publicity stills for Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (1969)
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For Whom The Doorbell Tolls — Bruno Kirby doesn’t want his rug heist interrupted in 1974’s The Godfather, Part II, nominated for 11 Academy Awards and the first sequel to win for Best Picture.
A frame from the trailer for Harmony Korine’s upcoming docudrama Spring Breakers (2013)
El Corrido de Patty Hearst, Falcon Records
A publicity still for Dead Presidents, 1995, directed by Allen and Albert Hughes.
A lobby card for Jesse James (1939)
Tyrone Power as the titular outlaw in a publicity still for Jesse James (1939)
