How was You Only Live Once partly connected to the story of Bonnie and Clyde?

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Fritz Lang directing Woman in the Moon (1929) — Fritz Lang Although it took Fritz Lang some 21 years to make 22 Hollywood films, arguably at least half of them are noirish masterpieces of menace. His time in Hollywood, which began in 1934, followed a directing career in Germany during the 1920s that included several landmark films.

Fritz Lang's 1937 film You Only Live Once was based partly on the story of the real-life fugitives Bonnie and Clyde. The film stars Henry Fonda as an ex-convict who, after being unjustly sentenced to death for murder, escapes jail unaware that he has been pardoned. He and his wife, played by Sylvia Sidney, then attempt to flee toward the Canadian border while being pursued in a desperate manhunt.1