The Gene Wilder-Evans Evans sequence is based on the kidnappings of the undertaker H. D. Darby and his acquaintance Sophia Stone, near Ruston, Louisiana on the late afternoon of April 27, 1933 by the Barrow gang, who had stolen their car [REF].
The only two members of the Barrow Gang who were alive at the time of the film's release were Blanche Barrow and W. D. Jones.