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Review: Happy hunting Bonnie and Clyde in ‘The Highwaymen’
By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertain- ment Writer
It’s hard to begin watching the Netflix movie “The Highwaymen” and not think about the way it will inevitably end — in a famous ambush and a hail of bullets.
That’s what happened to Bonnie Park- er and Clyde Barrow on May 23, 1934, the day the law finally caught up to the couple who had spent years on a multi- state murder spree.
For film fans of a certain age, we’ve practically seen the fatal ambush. “The
Highwaymen” is haunted by the 1967 film “Bonnie and Clyde,” which had at its final scene a torrent of gunfire rid- dling Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty.
That film romanticized the crimi- nal duo who killed 13, and their fatal ambush seemed less like a necessary
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