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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.
After several more robberies, John is ready to carry out his escape plan, which involves sneaking a barrel filled with firearms to the gang while they are on quarry duty. Once armed, the gangsters shoot their way to freedom and, with John, commit a series of bank robberies in the Midwest.
- Max Nosseck, Leon Charles, Frank Fox
- Lawrence Tierney
John Dillinger (Lawrence Tierney) was an Indiana farm boy who had a thirst for cash, once realising where the cash was, Dillinger rose to become the 1930s public enemy number 1. This portrayal of a man who not only terrified the public, but also captivated them wholesale, benefits from an excellent screenplay courtesy of Philip Yordan.
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Dillinger is a mostly routine gangster film with a few nifty touches, as with the slow way vicious John Dillinger (Lawrence Tierney) takes over the gang of bank robbers led by his gentlemanly mentor, Specs Green (Edmund Lowe).
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- King Brothers Productions
- Max Nosseck
John Dillinger begins his life of crime as a petty thief, meets his future gang in prison and eventually masterminds a series of daring robberies. The rise of John Dillinger from petty criminal (including, unforgivably, holding up a cinema) via prison and bank robbery with his new convict associates to the accolade of Public Enemy Number One.
The film traces Dillinger's criminal career from his first petty theft to his spectacular 1934 demise outside Chicago's Biograph Theater (incidentally, this film was banned in Chicago for several years).
