Dillinger: Public Enemy No. 1

Name: Dillinger: Public Enemy No. 1
Released: 1934-11-01T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 20 min
Rating: 5
Cast: John Dillinger, Melvin Purvis

"In the most thrilling episode of his life!"

Propagandic newsreel commissioned by J. Edgar Hoover to make the FBI's killing of John Dillinger seem more heroic, after a public outcry complained that the government's shooting a man in the back while leaving a movie theatre was cowardly.