The movie suggests that a couple of Texas Rangers, going on tracking skills, long experience, and hunches, working fairly independently, accomplished what a "1000 man dragnet" was unable to do. That's such a common Hollywood trope - is that for real?
And Hamer's conversation with Clyde's father - any basis in fact?
The movie " Bonnie & Clyde: The True Story " was supposed to be highly accurate... it came out in 1992... I know that doesn't answer your question, but it may be rather difficult to get an answer due to varying accounts and records