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Overview
Citing the adage that "those who do not study history are condemned to get it from Hollywood," popular historian Mona Sizer profiles a dozen notorious Texas outlaws and how they have been portrayed on the Silver Screen. From Pancho Villa - who was paid $25,000 by the Mutual Film Company to portray himself - to Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow (portrayed by Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty), Sizer separates fact from fancy in a fun, rollicking look at the bad guys of Texas Westerns. Sidebars ("How to Rob a Train," "How to Hold Up a Stagecoach," and "The Hollywood Posse") round out this delightful homage to actual and movie bandits alike.
Synopsis
Mona Sizer profiles a dozen notorious Texas outlaws and how they have been protrayed on the Silver Screen.
Editorials
True West
Pairing facts with film myths, Texas Bandits shows how Hollywood artfully reinvented the lives of renowned bandits. Sizer's book pays intriguing and humorous homage to legendary bandits and their frivolous filmmakers.— Green, Cynthia