Review By Daniel Staebler "Dillinger"
Starring: Lawrence Tierney, Edmund Lowe, Anne Jeffreys, Elisha Cook Jr
Based on an original script by Philip Yordan, DILLINGER is a movie directed by Max Nosseck in 1945.

John Dillinger is incarcerated for having stolen $7 from a stand. In jail, he meets the famous bank robber Specs Green and his gang. A few months later, Dillinger organizes his new friends's escape and starts, under Specs's leadership, to rob banks in the Indiana state. Soon, Dillinger sets aside Specs and takes the control of the gang. Specs rats Dillinger out to the police and Dillinger is sent to jail again. He escapes and, after having killed Specs, goes on robbing bank but this time, John Dillinger becomes the public enemy number 1.


Plot
Time/Era of Movie:
Crime & Police Story? Yes
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20 %
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40 %
If this is a criminal POV story...

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status:
Age: - 20's-30's
Hair style - short/standard straight (man)
Body type - average (man)
Events of movie makes character more... - tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Female
Hair style
Body type - average (woman)
How much in movie? - 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status:
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 60%
Hair type
Body type - fat (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique
How sensitive is this character?

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Midwest
City? Yes
Misc setting - moving train

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel... - excited
How many deaths in film? - 4-8
How much use of techno gadgets? - 2 ()
Kind of violence: - guns
Unusual forms of death - perforation--bullets
Check here if B&W Yes
Any profanity? - None
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