Hollis Alpert was a major movie critic who rose to prominence in the 1960s, best remembered today for his role in creating the National Society of Film Critics. He was born on September 24, 1916 in Herkimer, New York and served as a combat historian with the U.S. Army during the Second World War. Some of his accounts of warfare were published by ...
[on "Bonnie And Clyde", 1967]: I should say at once that, filmically, "Bonnie And Clyde" represents a high point in the directional work of Arthur Penn; that it is exceedingly well-made; that it has an astonishingly good performance by Warren Beatty as Clyde Barrow...What is bothersome about the picture is that David Newman and Robert Benton, the writers, aren't able to make clear their own attitudes toward the two criminals.
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Film critic; a cofounder of the National Society of Film Critics in 1966.
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Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1966
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