Frank Hamer finally gets his due in the new Netflix movie, 'The Highwaymen'
Woody Harrelson, left, and Kevin Costner in a scene from “The Highwaymen.” By Michael S. Rosenwald Michael S. Rosenwald Enterprise reporter focusing on history, the social sciences, and culture. Email Bio Follow April 13 at 7:00 AM In “Bonnie and Clyde,” the 1967 hit film staring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the murderous lovers who captivated the country during the 1930s, the Texas Ranger who pursues them is Frank Hamer, a bumbling idiot.
But when Hamer’s widow saw the film, she was moved not emotionally or cinematically but legally. Hamer was never kidnapped. And he certainly was no idiot. The film, a classic chase story, reveals biographical tidbits about Hamer via dialogue between Costner’s and Harrelson’s characters. These are not men of many words, but what they do say is tough and definitely Texan. Also, they pretty much always wear suit and tie.Harrelson : “How many bullets you got in you?”Hamer got his start in Texas law enforcement in the early 1900s on a horse. In his time as a Texas Ranger, Hamer was in dozens of gunfights and killed at least 53 people.
Guinn said the Rangers were “not only lethal, they were relatively unchecked.” To keep the peace — peace as they saw it — nothing was off the table, Guinn said, even “coldblooded murder.”“Hamer and three of his Rangers held off a mob of 6,000 intent on lynching a black man who had raped a white woman,” wrote John Boessenecker, the author of a biography of Hamer.
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. Hamer became obsessed — as the movie shows — with “even the smallest details concerning Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker,” Guinn wrote in his book. “What kind of clothes did they wear? What brand of cigarettes did each smoke?” Hamer even lived out of his V8 Ford the same way Bonnie and Clyde did.
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