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#OTD in 2019 the film The Highwaymen premiered on Netflix. The film dramatizes #TexasRaners Frank Hamer and Maney Gault’s hunt for Bonnie and Clyde, and celebrates the Rangers’ seemingly unique ability to “take down” dangerous criminals. /1 
Bonnie Parker, Clyde Barrow, and their gang robbed banks and stores and killed at least 9 people between 1932 and 1934. They repeatedly evaded police capture, until a posse led by Hamer and Gault ambushed and killed them in Louisiana on May 7, 1934. / 2
Told from the Rangers’ perspective, The Highwaymen positions itself as a ‘corrective’ to Bonnie and Clyde’s romantic Robin Hood image. It responds to the 1967 film Bonnie And Clyde, which depicts the outlaws as glamorous anti-heroes in the spirit of the ‘60s. /3
