The Newton boys [videorecording] / Twentieth Century Fox presents a Detour Filmproduction ; produced by Anne Walker-McBay ; screenplay by Richard Linklater and Claude Stanush and Clark Lee Walker ; directed by Richard Linklater.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment,
Based on the book by Claude Stanush. Matthew McConaughey (Willis Newton), Ethan Hawke (Jess Newton), Skeet Ulrich (Joe Newton), Vincent D'Onofrio (Dock Newton), Dwight Yoakum (Brentwood Glasscock), Julianna Margulies (Louise Brown), Bo Hopkins (K.P. Aldrich), Chloe Webb (Avis Glasscock), Charles Gunning (Slim), Luke Askew (Chief Schoemaker). Special features: Theatrical trailer (3 min.); Cast [text feature].
Contents:
Main titles -- Uvalde County, Texas, 1919 -- Bank robbery -- Forty-one banks -- On the town -- Running through the list -- Louise finds out -- Setback -- Snatch and run in Canada -- Oil well -- Mail train -- Casualty -- Caught! -- Two months later -- Rounding up the suspects -- On trial -- Verdict -- Sentencing -- End titles.
Summary:
"This is the True Story of the most successful Bank Robbers in the History of the United States" says the old-timey title card. The Newton boys, a real-life clan of bank robbers active from 1919-1924, are both the most unsung and fiscally successful band bank robbers in American history, capping their careers with an Illinois mail-train robbery whose estimated $3 million haul was the largest theft of its kind to date. This lovingly recreated period piece--part Western, part crime story, and part true family saga--is the story of how these down-home Texas farm boys set out to grab themselves some of the Twenties roar before it left them in the dust.
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