[DubfromGa]

I just finished watching this tonight. It's the story of Frank Hamer and his hunt for Bonnie & Clyde. Kevin Costner wasn't too bad as Hamer, but I wish they'd picked anyone but that leftist loon Woody Harrelson to be Maney Gault. Unfortunately my knowledge of the actual story of Hamer's hunt for B&C isn't very good so I don't know how much was true vs. Hollyweird embellishment. However it was a pretty good action movie with a fair amount of gunplay. And they apparently got most of the details right with the actual weapons used in the final ambush. Unfortunately very little 1911 usage is seen. Anyway, if you have Netflix it's worth watching in my opinion.

I agree with you on all points.


I like the way the movie addressed everything from the law enforcement perspective and didn't get into much character development of the criminals.


For a bit more 1911 involvement I can suggest a good book I just started by Stephen Hunter....titled G-Man. Early in the book one of his characters takes place in the ambush that took down Bonnie & Clyde. It's a fiction novel, but like all of his work....some great reading. A particular 1911 seems to be an integral part of the novel.

 

[napoleon]

It was fun to watch, but historically, pretty inaccurate.

 

[Texagun]

I watched it twice and really enjoyed it. Frank Hamer is a hero in Texas. Here's another Bandido that "maybe" met his fate at the hands of Frank Hamer.

Some bad looking and well-armed Dudes!

https://www.facebook.com/TracesofTe...tos/pb.105810232784448.-2207520000.1556460000./2421729121192536/?type=3&theater

 

[TRSOtto]

Watched it last night. A good movie. Historically accurate??? I could not care less. It was an entertaining movie, not a documentary.

 

[RDCL]

I've read that the B & C gang stole most of their weapons from national guard armories.

You'd have to wonder how little security N.G. armories had back in the 1930's if a couple of low-level punks could break into these places so easily.

Russ

 

[napoleon]

I've read that the B & C gang stole most of their weapons from national guard armories.

You'd have to wonder how little security N.G. armories had back in the 1930's if a couple of low-level punks could break into these places so easily.

Russ

They were basically unmanned. All you had to do was break in.

 

[napoleon]

Watched it last night. A good movie. Historically accurate??? I could not care less. It was an entertaining movie, not a documentary.

I do not disagree sir, but some of it could have been left out. Like Bonnie executing the police officer. Never happened. But it is Hollywood and they always made those two out to be much more than they were.

 

[Woodtroll]

A book that does a good job of filling out all of the characters in the movie is "Go Down Together", by Jeff Guinn. The author references a lot of older documents, manuscripts, etc. and has lots of notes of his research and where his suppositions came from in his footnotes at the end of the book. The book shows Clyde and Bonnie in a pretty fair light, I think - white trash petty hoodlums that had opportunities to change their path but refused to. Robbing banks is one thing, but killing innocents is quite another.

 

[napoleon]

A book that does a good job of filling out all of the characters in the movie is "Go Down Together", by Jeff Guinn. The author references a lot of older documents, manuscripts, etc. and has lots of notes of his research and where his suppositions came from in his footnotes at the end of the book. The book shows Clyde and Bonnie in a pretty fair light, I think - white trash petty hoodlums that had opportunities to change their path but refused to. Robbing banks is one thing, but killing innocents is quite another.

Yes sir. Excellent book!

 

[Texagun]

Watched it last night. A good movie. Historically accurate??? I could not care less. It was an entertaining movie, not a documentary.

Here are some photos of the Bonnie and Clyde exhibit at the Texas Rangers Museum and Hall of Fame in Waco, TX taken in 2015 on my last visit there. The painting and narrative are based on Ted Hinton's version of the events that happened that morning in 1934.