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 e…
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Dillinger
Overview
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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Release date
20/07/1973
Votes
124
Popularity
3.1
Warren Oates
John Dillinger
Ben Johnson
Melvin Purvis
Michelle Phillips
Billie Frechette
Cloris Leachman
Anna Sage
Harry Dean Stanton
Homer Van Meter
Geoffrey Lewis
Harry Pierpont
John P. Ryan
Charles Mackley
Richard Dreyfuss
Baby Face Nelson
John Martino
Eddie Martin
Roy Jenson
Samuel Cowley
Read Morgan
Big Jim Wollard
Frank McRae
Reed Youngblood
Steve Kanaly
Pretty Boy Floyd
Ann Ault
Mary (uncredited)
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