Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Texas Ranger who killed Bonnie and Clyde gets film redemption at last in 'The Highwaymen'

The posse. Top: Hinton, Oakley, Gault; seated: Alcorn, Jordan, and Frank Hamer.
(USA Today) Frank Hamer, the former Texas Ranger who was brought out of retirement to stop gangsters Bonnie and Clyde, has found film redemption through Kevin Costner's laconic portrayal in "The Highwaymen."
Costner's role in the drama, which premiered Sunday at the South By Southwest film festival in Austin ahead of its March 15 theatrical release (streaming March 29 on Netflix), gives Hamer's point of view in leading the effort to stop criminal couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, dramatically killing the duo in a hail of bullets in 1934. Continued

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