Dillinger is a 1945 gangster film telling the story of John Dillinger. The film was directed by Max Nosseck. Dillinger was the first major film to star Lawrence Tierney. The B-movie was shot in black and white and features a smoke-bomb bank robbery edited into the film from the 1937 Fritz Lang film, You Only Live Once. The film was released on DVD by Warner Bros. for the Film Noir Classic Collections 2 in 2005 even though the film is generally regarded as not being film noir. Some of the film was shot at Big Bear Lake, California.
Dillinger is a 1973 gangster film which shows evidence of being strongly influenced by the films of Sam Peckinpah, as well as borrowing cinematically from the Warren Beatty vehicle, Bonnie and Clyde. It stars Warren Oates as the violent gangster John Dillinger in Depression Era America and Ben Johnson as his pursuer, FBI Agent Melvin Purvis. The movie, narrated by Purvis, chronicles the last few years of Dillinger's life (depicted as a matter of months) as the FBI and law enforcement closed in. The movie features unapologetic and largely unromanticized depictions of the principle characters, allowing for character depth and development which is rarely seen in the "shoot-em-up" genre. The compelling performances and clever script created a film which, over time, has transcended its B-movie production values. It was written and directed by John Milius for Roger Corman's New World Pictures. Retired FBI Agent Clarence Hurt, one of the agents involved in the final shoot out with Dillinger, was the film's technical advisor.
Dillinger is a 1991 gangster TV movie starring Mark Harmon as "public enemy# 1" John Dillinger, Sherilyn Fenn as Billie Frechette, and Will Patton as FBI agent Melvin Purvis.
The rise of John Dillinger from petty criminal (including, unforgiveably, holding up a cinema) via prison and bank robbery with his new convict associates to the accolade of Public Enemy Number One. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Lawrence Tierney plays a sheriff in this version of the Dillinger story. He played John Dillinger himself in Dillinger (1945).
The cabin which was shot up by the FBI was really a restaurant that had been shut down for a few years.
The theater he walks out of at the end of the movie was really the facade of a factory in the "Third Ward" of Milwaukee.
The large Bank they rob was actually the lobby of the Milwaukee Public Library.
Introduced Marjorie Barretto.
After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him. Written by Jeremy Perkins
