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John Milius (written by)
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Release Date:
20 July 1973 (USA) more
Tagline:
...he was the gangster's gangster.
Plot:
John Dillinger and his gang go on a bank robbing spree across the midwest, but one G-Man is determined to bring him down. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Golden Globe. more
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(56 articles)
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The direction is fine, the period detail is fine, the actors are fine, the script - well, uh... more (36 total)

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107 min
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After Melvin Purvis shoots down "Pretty Boy" Floyd, he goes up to the fallen outlaw and asks "Are you 'Pretty Boy' Floyd?" to which Floyd responds "I'm Charles Arthur Floyd." That was the real exchange between the outlaw and the G-Man when Floyd was brought down on October 22nd, 1934. Like "Baby Face" Nelson, "Bugsy" Siegel, and "Scarface" Al Capone, Floyd hated his famous nickname and would never acknowledge it. So when Purvis kept asking him if he was "Pretty Boy", he kept responding with his full name until he was nearly dead and Floyd finally acknowledged the nickname to Purvis before dying. more
Goofs:
Errors in geography: In th movie Dillinger exists the Biograph Theater and turns right or north. In fact the alley he was shot in was to the left or 1/4 south of the theater. more
Quotes:
John Dillinger: [before a bank robbery] OK, boys; let's go make a withdrawal. more
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Referenced in Little Cigars (1973) more
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The direction is fine, the period detail is fine, the actors are fine, the script - well, uh..., 11 February 2003
Author: Wizard-8 from Victoria, BC

While not without interest (such as some good action sequences), I can't help but be somewhat disappointed by the movie. Although it claims to be a kind of biography of Dillinger, you learn very little about him. The movie starts in the middle of his crime spree, so you don't see what lead him into that life. And from what you see of him here, he comes across little better than a gun-happy thug who is into abusing his girlfriend - surely the real Dillinger was more interesting than that.

For that matter, you learn little (if anything) of Melvin Purvis or the other real-life figures involved here. They are all pretty bland characters who have one role, either to pursue and eliminate evil, or escape from the law and rob banks. In fact, it's near impossible to tell the Dillinger gang members apart!

The script is not just weak in giving character development, the story is also poorly told, with the story jumping around from place to place before we can catch our breath and properly digest what happened. Characters disappear and suddenly appear, and the story often jumps months ahead without bothering to tell us what happened during that time.

This was Milius' first job as a director. He got the job only because A.I.P. offered him his long-dreamed goal of directing if he also wrote the script. I cannot help but think that Milius was so occupied in preparing to direct, that he didn't give himself enough time to polish his script.

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