The Newton Boys were for real--a quartet of bank-robbing brothers out of Texas who pioneered the same territory that Bonnie and Clyde would bucket across to much larger celebrity a decade later. There were, however, important differences between the gangs. For one thing, the Newtons were far more successful, financially speaking, than their successors. More important, they did not come to a premature and legend-inspiring end. They all attained great age and modest respectability; one of them even turned up as a guest of Johnny Carson's in the '80s.
Their efficiency and longevity presented certain problems to director Richard Linklater (Slacker)...
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