Category: Biography
All Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Release Year: 2009
Country: USA
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Languages: English
Director: Michael Mann
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Writing by: Ronan Bennett – (screenplay) and
Michael Mann – (screenplay) &
Ann Biderman – (screenplay)
Bryan Burrough – (book "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34")
Produced by: G. Mac Brown – executive producer
Bryan H. Carroll – co-producer
Gusmano Cesaretti – co-producer
Kevin De La Noy – co-producer
Michael Mann – producer
Karl McMillan – production associate producer
Kevin Misher – producer
Maria Norman – associate producer
Robert De Niro – executive producer (uncredited)
Jane Rosenthal – executive producer (uncredited)
Cast: James Russo – Walter Dietrich
David Wenham – Harry 'Pete' Pierpont
Christian Stolte – Charles Makley
Jason Clarke – John 'Red' Hamilton
Johnny Depp – John Dillinger
John Judd – Turnkey
Stephen Dorff – Homer Van Meter
Michael Vieau – Ed Shouse
John Kishline – Guard Dainard
Wesley Walker – Jim Leslie
John Scherp – Earl Adams
Music: Elliot Goldenthal
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Plot Outline: The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.
Plot: This is the story of the last few years of the notorious bank robber John Dillinger. He loved what he did and could imagine little else that would make him happier. Living openly in 1930s Chicago, he had the run of the city with little fear of reprisals from the authorities. It's there that he meets Billie Frechette with whom he falls deeply in love. In parallel we meet Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent who would eventually track Dillinger down. The FBI was is in its early days and Director J. Edgar Hoover was keen to promote the clean cut image that so dominated the organization through his lifetime. Purvis realizes that if he is going to get Dillinger, he will have to use street tactics and imports appropriate men with police training. Dillinger is eventually betrayed by an acquaintance who tells the authorities just where to find him on a given night.
Movie Quotes: John Dillinger: I like baseball, movies, good clothes, whiskey, fast cars… and you. What else you need to know?
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