Dillinger (1945 film)

Dillinger is a 1945 gangster film telling the story of John Dillinger.

Philip Yordan was nominated for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, earning Monogram Pictures its only nomination.The story begins with a newsreel summing up the gangster life of John Dillinger in detail. At the end of the newsreel, Dillingers father Victor Kilian walks onto the stage and speaks to the movie audience about his sons childhood back in Indiana. He talks of Johns childhood as having been ordinary and not very eventful, but concedes that his son had ambitions and wanted to go his own way. The young Dillinger left his childhood town to find his fortune in Indianapolis, but soon ran out of money. The scene fades to a restaurant, where he is on a date and finds himself humiliated by the waiter who refuses to accept a check for the meal unable to pay for the meal, he excuses himself, runs into a nearby grocery store and robs it for 7.20 in cash. He makes the clerk at the store believe he has a gun in his hand under the jacket. ........

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