Dillinger, the was the ninth effort from the enterprising King Brothers, and their most financially successful film to date. Lawrence Tierney became an overnight cult favorite with his gritty portrayal of maverick bank robber John Dillinger, though top billing is bestowed upon Edmund Lowe as gang chieftain Specs. 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
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A powerful, bleak B-level biopic of the legendary gangster made just a decade after his death.
This 70-minute classic from Monogram Studios is the epitome of what they call "lean and mean."
Made in 1945 this take on Public Enemy #1 John Dillinger is a hard hitting, tough gangster flick. During the Second World War there was an unwritten rule amongst the Hollywood hierachy about not producing gangster films so as not to show America to the rest of the world in a bad light. So it was left to the small
May 7, 2010
One of my favourite Gangster Movies it shows that many Gangsters were regular Citizens who had Bad Luck and get to be delinquent and this is was the Reason they took the Way of a Gangster what had he should do the Waitress doesen't accept a Check
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