Dillinger and Capone (1995)

Directed by

Jon Purdy

Genre

action film, crime film, gangster film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

R

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film imagines that John Dillinger survived his famous shootout and goes to work for Al Capone. Martin Sheen plays Dillinger and F. Murray Abraham plays Capone in a fictional gangster adventure.

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What happens

Dillinger and Capone is a 1995 American action film directed by Jon Purdy and starring Martin Sheen, F. Murray Abraham, Michael Oliver, Catherine Hicks, and Don Stroud. The film was screened at MystFest in Cattolica, Italy and the Cannes Film Festival in 1995. Written by Michael B. Druxman, the film is not based in real events but imagines a world in which John Dillinger is not killed at the Biograph Theater and lives on to work with Al Capone. The film was acquired by Cinemax and aired on their cable television network periodically in 1996. In 1997 the film was acquired by HBO and aired periodically on that television network. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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