The Best Damn Bank Robber in the World!
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.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and resolved.
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- tmdb76622195on TMDB · Sep 20236/10
Warren Oates walks like bank robber John Dillinger, he talks like Dillinger, he shoots like Dillinger, and he is one of the best things about "Dillinger." John Milius wrote and directed this 1973 action packed biopic about the infamous bank robber. It acknowledges Arthur Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde" a couple of times, but Milius' script is not as good as the eye-wow he shows us. The story may be familiar, it has been told on dozens of true crime documentaries. John Dillinger and his gang terrorized the Midwest with violent bank robberies. He was captured in Arizona, brought back to Indiana, and escaped from jail using a bar of soap carved into the shape of a gun and blackened with shoe polish. Hot on his trail was the FBI's Melvin Purvis (Ben Johnson), who made it his own personal vendetta to kill all of these criminals, smoking cigars over their dead bodies. The gang have their own loving bad girls to hunker down with, and Dillinger had prostitute Billie (Michelle Phillips). Dillinger was killed outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago while seen with the infamous lady in red, Anna Sage (Cloris Leachman). While "Bonnie and Clyde" was a historic entry in the crime film genre, I thought
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Cast
- Warren OatesJohn Dillinger
- Ben JohnsonMelvin Purvis
- Michelle PhillipsBillie Frechette
- Cloris LeachmanAnna Sage
- Harry Dean StantonHomer Van Meter
- Geoffrey LewisHarry Pierpont
- John P. RyanCharles Mackley
- Richard DreyfussBaby Face Nelson
- John MartinoEddie Martin
- Roy JensonSamuel Cowley
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- John MiliusDirector
- John MiliusWriter
- Jules BrennerDirector of Photography
- Barry De VorzonOriginal Music Composer
- Fred R. Feitshans Jr.Editor
- Buzz FeitshansProducer
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