[citation needed] The film was released by American International Pictures as a double feature with Machine Gun Kelly starring Charles Bronson in his first leading role.

Diner waitress Bonnie Parker is just as tired of her job in 1932 Texas as she is of customers like Guy Darrow, who try too hard to make her acquaintance.

She also kills a cop who is chasing them, which leads to Tom Steel of the Texas Rangers, a fictionalized version of Frank Hamer, being assigned to the case.

But when a big scheme by Bonnie to rob an armored truck backfires, the guards locking themselves inside a vehicle that is bulletproof, things continue to go wrong when Guy accidentally kills Duke.

"[5][6] Elaine Lemmon wrote in Senses of Cinema that, "Other than the predictable final shoot-out, The Bonnie Parker Story bears no other resemblances to the later film, especially in terms of visual style, where it remains strictly in the B-movie tradition of American International Pictures, its production company.