Highwaymen

[Ned Christiansen]

I agree, Public Enemies is the current reigning standard.

Notice there was one very short clip where a gangster waiting in a darkened car looked just like Depp's Dillinger? Coincidence?

So, Remmy Leven, no one saw Remmy?

And who the hell were the armorers?

[MountainRaven]

IMDB.org says that the film's armorer is one, "Joey Rocketshoes Dillon."

Apparently he was armorer for Deadwood, Westworld, Godless, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (specifically the actual Buster Scruggs story), and Gangster Squad.

[Ned Christiansen]

So here's a pic of Remmy Leven:

[SkiDevil]

I agree, Public Enemies is the current reigning standard.

Notice there was one very short clip where a gangster waiting in a darkened car looked just like Depp's Dillinger? Coincidence?

So, Remmy Leven, no one saw Remmy?

And who the hell were the armorers?

"Road to Perdition" with Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Daniel Craig, and Jude Law was pretty good too.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0257044/

[RioGrandeGreen]

I saw it today, it was good. Gun store scene was awesome. Question for all you gun history aficionados? What was the cost of each of those guns back in the day. What would be the cost today just for shiza and giggles.

[Moose-Knuckle]

I thought it was a album by Willie & Waylon,geeezzzz.

Album?

That is blasphemy sir.

The Highwaymen was an Outlaw Country super group with Willie, Waylon, Chris, and Johnny.

Watched it last night and a really good film, however I don't think it even comes close to Public Enemies. Was really happy to see that the focus was on Hammer and Gault and Bonnie and Clyde were shown as the vicious crapbags they actually were.

That's because Micheal Mann directed/co-wrote/co-produced Public Enemies. IMHO Netflix movies kind of have a "low budget" feel about them compared to studio features.

The gun handling / depiction was more than acceptable. The scene in the gun store was perfect.

That gun store scene gave me wood. I looked over at my better half and said; "I'd ****ing love to be able to walk into a small town hardware store and purchase a Colt Monitor and a Thompson like that".

[Krazykarl]

So here's a pic of Remmy Leven:

That looks very Bonnie appropriate. I think I want one now.

Edited to ask if extended magazine tubes existed back then??

[Moose-Knuckle]

That looks very Bonnie appropriate. I think I want one now.

Edited to ask if extended magazine tubes existed back then??

I've never seen any in photos, besides they chopped theirs down. IIRC they had two with the stocks sawed off as well as the barrels so an extended mag tube would have been counter productive. One of Clyde's he fixed a leather strap on the bottom of the cut off stock so it would hang under his arm beneath an overcoat and he could bring it up to action in an instant from concealment.

[TexHill]

I just finished watching "The Highwaymen", and thought it was excellent. One of my grandfathers was a young Dallas County Sheriff's deputy during this time and used to talk about being on the lookout for Bonnie and Clyde. Parts of the movie with Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty were filmed in my home town. Because they used the old town bank in the movie to shoot the bank robbery scene people from other towns just assumed that Bonnie and Clyde must have robbed the bank in real life, but they didn't because they had friends and family living here.

If you're an Amazon Prime member there's an excellent American Experience episode on Bonnie & Clyde.
https://www.amazon.com/American-Expe.../dp/B01ASE3JLY

[mack7.62]

I saw it today, it was good. Gun store scene was awesome. Question for all you gun history aficionados? What was the cost of each of those guns back in the day. What would be the cost today just for shiza and giggles.

According to this the price for a Thompson back in the day was $200 which would equal about $2600 today.

http://www.guncollectionsonline.com/tommygun.htm

I liked the gun store scene but thought "that is a heckva lot of 1935 $ sitting on the counter" while watching it.

I think it more likely Hamer got his full autos from Texas National Guard, Prison or LE sources, still made an interesting scene though. As far as the Colt Monitor only 125 were made in 1931 with 90 going to the FBI and most of the rest going to prisons and law enforcement so one being in a Lubbock gun store in 1935 is not likely.