When I chose this movie to watch, I wasn't expecting anything noteworthy. But this was beyond the pale horrific in its inaccuracies and flat out goofiness. As an Indiana native who is very familiar with all of the locations Dillinger trolled, I found it off-putting to see the prison in Michigan City surrounded by mountains and scrub pines! Tierney's depiction of Dillinger as a totally psychopathic murderer was also not close to accurate - those who remember the real Dillinger say that he was pretty affable, and he actually had a good sense of humor (remember, this was the guy who wrote a fan letter to Henry Ford saying that of all the getaway cars he stole, he preferred Fords.) There was no attempt to create any 1920s atmosphere - even the train robbery scene showed a diesel engine pulling streamliner cars, something that wasn't part of the landscape until well after WWII. The plot was thin, characters even thinner and entertainment value the thinnest of all. This would have been the third show at a drive-in.
Review of Dillinger
