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Dillinger (1945)

Dillinger poster
Directed by
Max Nosseck
Genre
drama film, biographical film, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 36 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This black and white gangster film tells the story of the famous bank robber John Dillinger. It follows his rise and fall as a criminal in the 1930s. Lawrence Tierney plays the lead role.

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What happens

Dillinger is a 1945 gangster film telling the story of John Dillinger. The film was directed by Max Nosseck. Dillinger was the first major film to star Lawrence Tierney. The B-movie was shot in black and white and features a smoke-bomb bank robbery edited into the film from the 1937 Fritz Lang film You Only Live Once. The film was released on DVD by Warner Bros. for the Film Noir Classic Collections 2 in 2005, even though the film generally is not regarded as being film noir. Some sequences were shot at Big Bear Lake, California. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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