Ya. Not accurate but very entertaining.
They played up the fact that they were Texas Rangers which was interesting.
That’s because the Governor, Ma Ferguson, discharged all Texas Rangers in 1933 and was reconstituted or reformed in 1935 after she left office. The Texas legislative body also had a role in this as well. This was one aspect of the movie that was historically accurate. The Texas government dealt with a lot of types like Bonnie and Clyde and to combat this they deputized a lot of men that were untrained. It proved to be ineffective as the movie also portrays. While not altogether historically accurate, the movie does get some things historically correct. It was good from what I watched while working on the computer.
“They played up the fact that they were Texas Rangers which was interesting.” Just one of the many inaccuracies. The shootout in the dust clouds during the depicted never happened vehicle pursuit being another.
The book was very much worth the read. Five-hundred some odd pages covering Hamer’s life.