****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.
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.