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The Newton boys, 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

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MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13

The Newton boys

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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

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"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

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

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