Rating: NR
Genre:
Crime
Release Date: 07/05/2005
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 70 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Not For Children
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
Dillinger, the was the ninth effort from the enterprising
King Brothers, and their most financially successful film to date.
Lawrence Tierney became an overnight cult favorite with his gritty portrayal of maverick bank robber
John Dillinger, though top billing is bestowed upon
Edmund Lowe as gang chieftain
Specs. The film traces
Dillinger's criminal career from his first petty theft to his spectacular 1934 demise outside Chicago's
Biograph Theater (incidentally, this film was banned in Chicago for several years).
Anne Jeffreys plays
Dillinger's fictional moll
Helen, while
Elisha Cook Jr.,
Marc Lawrence, and
Eduardo Ciannelli go through their usual
crime-flick paces. The film's set piece is an elaborate armored-car holdup, lifted in its entirety from footage originally shot for
Fritz Lang's
You Only Live Once (1937). Screenwriter
Philip Yordan, fresh from his Broadway triumph
Anna Lucasta, earned an Academy Award nomination for
Dillinger.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
;)
