Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

SincereFinest disgusting, overrated, pointless

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

kapelusznik18 ****SPOILERS**** With the movie over and lights on and curtain coming down we see this decrypted and grizzly looking old man step on the stage to give us the in-side info about the movie "Dillinger" that we just witnessed. The old guy turns out to be Pa Dillinger, Victor Kilon, the father of the person the movie is all about gangster John Dillinger,Lawrence Tierney, who gives us the audience the true story about his son John the most wanted man, by the police, in America in the mid-1930's who's still a legend in the world of crime today.A bit overdone in Dillinger murdering a number of people, in real life he only killed one, but still very accurate film about his exploits in crime committed with his forming the "Dillinger Gang" that terrorized the mid-west from 1933-34 robbing about a dozen banks as well as, I kid you not, two police stations. That's until it, the crime spree, finally came to an end in urban Chicago with Dillinger, the last surviving gang member, shot down by the FBI and local police leaving the Biograph Theater after watching the movie "Manhattan Melodrama". It turned out that the woman he took out for his last date the "Woman in Red", Ann Jeffrey, was the one who set Dillinger up for the kill.Were shown Dillinger's career in crime as a young man who first gets busted for a $7.20 stick up of a grocery store who later became involved with his cell mate Specs Green, Edmund Lowe, to form the notorious Spec Gang that terrorized mid-west banks and brokerage houses at the height of the great depression. Feeling that Spec is not tough enough like he is Dillinger later took over the gang-After dispatching Spec- and did things or robberies his way. Caught and later after escaping from prison with a hand made wooden gun Dillinger continued his reign of terror until the law caught up with him in Chicago where he was on the lamb from the law for some 10 months. And ironical it was Dillingers only weakness,a beautiful woman, that in the end ended up doing him.P.S According to the movie the only thing of value besides his .380 automatic the FBI & police found on the dead John John Dillinger was the $7.20 that he still had, as a memento I guess, in his pocket from his first robbery.

John T. Ryan ..........so said Gramp Maple (character actor, Charley Grapwin in THE PETRIFIED FOREST. With that little bit of dialog, so skillfully delivered in dialect, the supporting player instantly divided the Crime Drama into two Sub Genres; those being the Organized "Mafia" type variety and the Stick-up Guys on the Run type. Obviously we know where this one lies.ONCE AGAIN, TO borrow from yet another film source and reference. we say: "Most of what follows is true." With our tip of the hat and sincerest thanks we owe a debt of gratitude to BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID's production team of William Goldman (writer), George Roy Hill (director) and John Foreman & Paul Monash (producers).BUT SO IT is that there is a basically true story being told, albeit one that was either cut down in some respects and yet at the same time, generously embellished in others. With a running time of about 1 hour and 10 minutes, it has a certain economy of story telling that wastes not any footage whatsoever. The on screen story moves and never bores.OF PARTICULAR INTEREST to any film buff who is worth his weight in salt is the assembled cast. The cast is composed of a large group of tried and true veterans of probably hundreds of movies. We have Edmund Lowe, former leading man from the last days of the Silents to the early Talkies, but still a a big enough name to draw attention. Next up as situated in the co-starring status is Anne Jeffreys, who had a long and productive career in film and television.FILLING OUT THE scorecard is a large contingent of guys who were no strangers to Crime Drama. And there certainly must have been a shuttle service operating between the multiple shooting locations and Warner Brothers' Studios. We say this because Marc Lawrence, Elisha Cook, Jr., Ludwig Stossel, Victor Killian and Dewey Robinson were frequent employees (though not exclusive) there.THEN WE HAVE the opening title card that declares "Introducing Lawrence Tierney". This was brief and to the point and certainly a model of brevity. It was also serving notice that his would be a very prolific and successful run in Tinsel Town. Perhaps his ascension to the level of "Star Status" was just a tad short; but he was around for some time, working right up to the year 2000.* ANOTHER INTERESTING OBSERVATION is how this film seemingly has influenced many other movies that followed. As evidence, we present: BONNIE & CLYDE, BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID and even WHITE HEAT. That's not to say that this King Brothers Production didn't borrow from others. Just one look at the extensive scenes portrayed as being in prison were carefully crafted after the close study of the best in the genre; that being at Warner Brothers.WELL JUST IMAGINE, all of this from 'Poverty Row' charter member, Monogram Studios! Ain't these Americans clever, Schultz!NOTE: * Mr. Tierney's resume included late career appearances as a regular on HILL STREET BLUES and as the California Angels Manager in THE NAKED GUN: FROM THE FILES OF POLICE SQUAD.

winner55 By no means true t the actual story of famed bank-robber John Dillinger, but may be true to the personality of the man. Tierney plays Dillinger unromantically as an unredeemable sociopath completely obsessed with getting money on his own terms. His depiction of Dillinger's transformation from punk wannabe to actual cold-hearted thug is completely believable. The supporting cast is all tops, especially Lowe and Elisha Cook Jr. in his best bad-guy performance. The cheap sets, integration of stock-footage, location shooting are all surprisingly effective - only some of the back-screen effects are weak. The script is demandingly tight but both the cast and the director are up for it - despite the fact that the story spreads across some 15 years, it moves right along, intent only on depiction of the high-points of its theme. It's an intentional throw-back to the Warner Bros. gangster films of the early thirties, which makes it top-of-the-line of a wave of crime B-mellers in the late '40s (also dominated by Warner Bros., which studio apparently insisted on this film losing the Academy Award for Best Screenplay, and which, with further irony, now owns its rights). And its hard to imagine a film that makes so much use of violence without any graphic depiction of it.A true gem of American B-movie history.

ccthemovieman-1 This movie has several big things going for it: its short, fast-moving and just plain entertaining. How much more do you want? Also, Lawrence Tierney was made for gangster/film noir movies. He looks the part, acts the part, and was a thug in real life, too. Who better than to portray famous criminal John Dillinger as a cold-blooded killer? This was Tierney's starring debut and it was a good vehicle for him. I also enjoyed Edmund Lowe as the gang boss prior to Tierney taking over. I enjoyed the supporting cast, too: Anne Jeffreys, Elisha Cook Jr., Eduardo Cianelli and Marc Lawrence. All of them add to this film.I was glad they concentrated on the crime part of the film and didn't go crazy with a sappy romance. However, I am sorry Jeffreys wasn't on screen more often. She had the '40s look, if I ever saw it.