The Death of Jack Hamilton (2014)

Actors: Stephen King (writer), Dave S. Walker (composer), James Middlemarch (actor), Alexander Ellis (actor), Jonas Daniel Alexander (writer), Jonas Daniel Alexander (actor), Jamie Anderson (director), Jamie Anderson (writer), Ina Marie Smith (actress), Sarah Wilby (producer), Sarah Wilby (producer), Will Harrison-Wallace (actor), David Aldridge (actor), Frank Short (miscellaneous crew), Samuel Graham (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: The film centres on John Dillinger, Homer Van Meter and Jack Hamilton after their narrow escape from Little Bohemia. As they are fleeing, Hamilton is shot in the lung. They attempt to seek treatment for Hamilton as his condition rapidly worsens and he begins to succumb to gangrene and dementia.

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Short,
Taglines: God makes it all come right in the end.

Spirits of St. Paul: The Gangster Era (2012)

Actors: Joel Thingvall (actor), Jim Westcott (actor), John Edel (actor), Jim Brockhohn (actor), Carol Vnuk (actress), Bruce Miller (actor), Luis John Soria (actor), Annie Einan (actress), Bob Bowersox (actor), Alyssa Szarkowski (actress), Shawn Boyd (actor), Trevor Rychly (actor), John Egan (actor), Scott Carson (actor), Mike O'Loughlin (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Public Enemies (2009)

Actors: Peter Gerety (actor), Don Kress (actor), Stephen Dorff (actor), Shannon Edwards (actor), Stephen Graham (actor), Don Harvey (actor), Matt Craven (actor), Shannon Edwards (actor), Christian Bale (actor), Johnny Depp (actor), Spencer Garrett (actor), Billy Crudup (actor), Ewan Bourne (actor), Giovanni Ribisi (actor), Stephen Lang (actor),

Plot: This is the story of the last few years of the notorious bank robber John Dillinger. He loved what he did and could imagine little else that would make him happier. Living openly in 1930s Chicago, he had the run of the city with little fear of reprisals from the authorities. It's there that he meets Billie Frechette with whom he falls deeply in love. In parallel we meet Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent who would eventually track Dillinger down. The FBI was is in its early days and Director J. Edgar Hoover was keen to promote the clean cut image that so dominated the organization through his lifetime. Purvis realizes that if he is going to get Dillinger, he will have to use street tactics and imports appropriate men with police training. Dillinger is eventually betrayed by an acquaintance who tells the authorities just where to find him on a given night.

Keywords: 1930s, african-american, airplane, alleyway, alvin-karpis, ambush, apartment, apple-orchard, arm-wound, arrest
Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, History,
Taglines: America's Most Wanted

Quotes:

John Dillinger: [nodding at money left by a bank teller in front of his booth] You can put it away. Not here for your money. Here for the bank's money.

Billie Frechette: What do you want?::John Dillinger: Everything. Right now.

John Dillinger: Bye-bye, blackbird.

Melvin Purvis: What keeps you up nights, Mr. Dillinger?::John Dillinger: Coffee.

John Dillinger: We're having too good a time today. We ain't thinking about tomorrow.

John Dillinger: You wanna know if we're armed? We're armed.

John Dillinger: Well if it isn't the man who shot Pretty-Boy Floyd. Good thing 'cause he sure wasn't Whiz-Kid Floyd.

John Dillinger: [approaching group of police officers] What's the score?

[last lines]::Billie Frechette: They say you're the man who shot him.::Charles Winstead: That's right. One of 'em.::Billie Frechette: So why are you coming here to see me? To see the damage you done?::Charles Winstead: No. I came here because he asked me to. When he went down, he said somethin'. I put my ear next to his mouth, and what I think he said was this. He said, 'Tell Billie for me: Bye bye, Blackbird.'::[Billie starts to cry as Winstead gets up to leave]

Last Title Card: Melvin Purvis quit the FBI a year later and died by his own hand in 1960. Billie Frechette was released in 1936 and lived the rest of her life in Wisconsin.

Crime Wave: 18 Months of Mayhem (2008)

Actors: Dorian Harewood (actor), Franklin D. Roosevelt (actor), J. Edgar Hoover (actor), Charles A. Lindbergh (actor), Susan Werbe (producer), Jason Benjamin (actor), Ryan Watterson (actor), Aaron Pushkar (actor), Geoffrey Proud (writer), Wes Murphy (actor), Geoffrey Proud (producer), Ryan Waller (actor), Dixie Lee Sedgwick (actress), John Dillinger (actor), Stephen Land (producer),

Plot: John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd... These names have become so iconic, it's easy to forget that they were some of America's most notorious criminals who went on a historic crime spree that began and ended in just 18 months.

Keywords: criminal, g-man, gangster, machine-gun, mobster, number-in-title, reenactment
Genres: Crime, Documentary,

The Real Untouchables (2001)

Actors: James Woods (actor), J. Edgar Hoover (actor), Steve Longmuir (writer), Dominic Capone (producer), Dominic Capone (actor), Laura Orrico (actress), Kevin Lingle (actor), Barrie Bignold (composer), John Fothergill (director), Todd Milliner (actor), Tom Clarke Hill (actor), Tom Clarke Hill (actor), Bob Kaliebe (actor), Thomas E. Dewey (actor), Edmond G Coisson (actor),

Plot: Three real-life heroes, who battled organized crime between the two world wars, are the subject of this three-part documentary, complete with interviews and reenactments. Part one looks at Eliot Ness, the incorruptible Prohibition agent who worked to bring down Al Capone but remained obscure until Ness's memoir became the basis for a popular TV series, which inflated his role in bringing down the Chicago mobster. Part two examines Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent whose tireless efforts to capture John Dillinger ended in front of the Biograph theater in Chicago. Acclaim for Purvis faded as the jealous J. Edgar Hoover did what he could to erase the agent from public memory. Part three chronicles the career of Thomas Dewey, best known now as the Presidential candidate who lost to the dark horse, Harry Truman. But Dewey's great accomplishment was as the New York district attorney who brought down the Sicilian mobster, Lucky Luciano, by successfully prosecuting him for heading a prostitution racket. Whether Luciano really ran that racket is another story.

Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, alcoholic, ambition, apparent-suicide, april-fool's-day, archenemy, arkansas, bail-bondsman
Genres: Documentary, History,

Quotes:

[first lines]::[segment: "Eliot Ness"]::Narrator: He was the first untouchable, the Prohibition agent who cleaned up Chicago and brought down Al Capone. He became a legend. But does he owe his name to history or Hollywood? Who was the real Eliot Ness?

[last lines]::[segment: "Eliot Ness"]::Narrator: Eliot Ness wasn't the man who got Capone, but the image of the untouchable, a fearless and incorruptible agent, helps to ease our memory of the corrupt Prohibition years. In our timeless search for heroes, Eliot Ness still answers that call.

[first lines]::[segment: "Melvin Purvis"]::Narrator: In a desperate age when bank robbers were called Robin Hoods, he made the lawman the hero. The ace G-man, he lead the hunt for Public Enemy Number One, John Dillinger. In reward, he was hounded to his grave and written out of history. Who was the real Melvin Purvis?

[last lines]::[segment: "Melvin Purvis"]::Alston Purvis: There was a need for a hero - of a hero that represented the other side, other values. And my father provided that hero. He was a hero.

[first lines]::[segment: "Thomas Dewey"]::Narrator: In a city where everyone was for sale, he couldn't be bought. He took on the racketeers and risked his life to put mafia kingpin Lucky Luciano behind bars. His victory took him to the steps of the White House, but now he's forgotten. Who was the real Thomas Dewey?

[last lines]::[segment: "Thomas Dewey"]::Narrator: In the corrupt years between the wars, it looked like America would never win its war on organized crime. But in his defeat of Lucky Luciano, Thomas Dewey won a pioneering victory. The war on crime is never-ending, but the untouchable Thomas Dewey, one of a new breed of incorruptible lawmen, showed America how to fight and win.

Dillinger (1991)

Actors: Patricia Arquette (actress), Xander Berkeley (actor), Sherilyn Fenn (actress), Tom Bower (actor), David L. Wolper (producer), Greg Kinnear (actor), Vince Edwards (actor), Lawrence Tierney (actor), John Philbin (actor), Will Patton (actor), Mark Harmon (actor), Mark Wolper (producer), David McHugh (composer), Gary Houston (actor), Helen P. Butler (costume designer),

Genres: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History,
Taglines: Armed. Extremely dangerous.

Quotes:

Billie Frechette: The next thing you're going to do is tell me you're John Dillinger.::John Dillinger: Pleased to meet you.

The Lady in Red (1979)

Actors: James Horner (composer), Kitten Natividad (actress), Roger Corman (producer), John Sayles (writer), Louise Fletcher (actress), Michael Cavanaugh (actor), Buck Young (actor), Peter Hobbs (actor), Robert Conrad (actor), Mary Woronov (actress), Robert Forster (actor), Christopher Lloyd (actor), Dick Miller (actor), Robert Hogan (actor), Milt Kogan (actor),

Genres: Action, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: She's made of bullets, sin & bathtub gin! Her father said she was a tramp. Her customers said she was fantastic. From Dime-A-Dance Girl To Public Enemy # 1.

Quotes:

Satin (a prostitute): The day I can't handle the likes of him, I best get me a needle and thread and sew it shut.

Turk: Jake Lingle? Polly Franklin sends her regards. [shoots Lingle, killing him]

Driver who picked up Polly: You ever seen the Pacific? Everybody should see it once before they are plowed under.::Polly Franklin: Yeah. Sure. California.

Anna Sage: Ok. Room and board. But if I even catch you sniffing around my girls, I will personally snip it off.::Polly Franklin: She uses hedge clippers too kid.

John Dillinger: What's to know? I have two arms. Two legs. And I know all the words to Yes, I have no bananas.

Anna Sage: When I come here, they drag me right off the boat and put me in a harness. The land of opportunity. I worked naked, in a crib, for nickels and dimes and I kept the coins in my mouth because I didn't have no pockets, see.

[first lines]::Polly Franklin: In the heart of little old New York, You'll find a thoroughfare. It's the part of little old New York That runs into Times Square. A crazy quilt that "Wall Street Jack" built, If you've got a little time to spare, I want to take you there. Come and meet those dancing feet, On the avenue I'm taking you to, Forty-Second Street.

[last lines]::Driver who picked up Polly: You ever seen the Pacific? Everybody should see it once before they are plowed under.::Polly Franklin: Yeah. Sure. California.

Young Dillinger (1965)

Actors: Wally Rose (actor), John Ashley (actor), Robert Osterloh (actor), Emile Meyer (actor), Anthony Caruso (actor), Eddy Chandler (actor), Robert Conrad (actor), Art Baker (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Frank Gerstle (actor), Sol Gorss (actor), Reed Hadley (actor), John Hoyt (actor), Ted Knight (actor), Gene Roth (actor),

Plot: John Dillinger first goes to jail after attempting to rob his girlfiriend's father at her suggestion. Falling in with the likes of Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd he arranges their escape and they start on an escalating series of holdups.

Keywords: baby-face, bank-robbery, betrayal, federal-bureau-of-investigation, gangster, independent-film, informer, jailbreak, john-dillinger, moll
Genres: Crime, Drama,
Taglines: The Kingpin of All Public Enemies! His Wild Gun Battles! The Blazing Hold-Ups! Their Thrill Parties!

Baby Face Nelson (1957)

Actors: John Hoyt (actor), Cedric Hardwicke (actor), Harry Antrim (actor), Frank Hagney (actor), Dabbs Greer (actor), Murray Alper (actor), Anthony Caruso (actor), Ted de Corsia (actor), Elisha Cook Jr. (actor), Sol Gorss (actor), Dick Crockett (actor), Jack Elam (actor), Tom Fadden (actor), Leo Gordon (actor), Emile Meyer (actor),

Plot: George "Babyface" Nelson becomes one of the most important gangsters of 1920s Chicago by making brutal robberies. In order to compete with Al Capone he allies himself with John Dillinger...

Keywords: based-on-true-story, character-name-in-title, gang-violence, gangster, last-stand, machine-gun, main-character-dies, main-character-shot, outlaw, pistol
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir,
Taglines: More vicious than Little Caesar! More savage than Scarface! More brutal than Dillinger! The "baby-face b butcher" who lined 'em up -- chopped 'em down -- and terrorized a nation! the baby-face punk who became the FBI's PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1! THE DEADLIEST KILLER OF THEM ALL! (original print ad - all caps) Don't see it unless your nerves are bullet proof!

Killers All (1945)

Actors: Ted Toddy (producer), John Dillinger (actor), Clyde Barrow (actor), Bonnie Parker (actress), George Kelly (actor), Pretty Boy Floyd (actor),

Genres: Crime, Documentary,
Taglines: FOR THE FIRST TIME IT BLASTS THE SCREEN WITH THE UNCENSORED BRUTAL TRUTH! (1957 re-release print ad - all caps) CIGAR SMOKING BONNIE PARKER HELL IN PETTICOATS and GUN CRAZY CLYDE BARROW (1957 re-release print ad - almost all caps) SEE JOHN DILLINGER PUBLIC ENEMY No. 1 (1957 re-release print ad - almost all caps) SEE PRETTY BOY FLOYD -- SEE MACHINE GUN KELLY -- SEE RAYMOND HAMILTON (1957 re-release print ad - all caps) SEE! FREE! ON EXHIBITION THE BULLET-RIDDLED DEATH CAR OF CLYDE AND BONNIE plus CRIME DISPLAY (1957 re-release print ad - almost all caps; the "death car" and "crime display" were items placed in front of the theatre and in the lobby for viewing by the public.)