Faye Dunaway & Warren Beatty: Not! Real Bonnie & Clyde Short and Bumbling

Those who saw Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde probably think of the notorious Depression-era criminal couple as glamorous gangsters.

But in fact, as a new book by Jeff Guinn makes clear, the real-life couple whose story led to the Hollywood movie were a short and bumbling pair, Bloomberg reports. The main reason why Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow weren't captured sooner is that the lawmen pursuing them were equally inept.

"After reading the book, I wanted to recast the movie with Dustin Hoffman and Christina Ricci," writes reviewer Rick Warner.

The book, Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, is well worth a read, he says, describing it as exhaustively researched and crisply written.