Baby Face Nelson (film)

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,

Baby Face Nelson (1996)

Actors: John Gilbert (editor), Rob Kerchner (writer), Christopher Lennertz (composer), Mike Elliott (producer), Joseph G. Medalis (actor), Marta M. Mobley (miscellaneous crew), Michael McDonald (actor), Roger Corman (producer), Clint Howard (actor), Martin Kove (actor), C. Thomas Howell (actor), F. Murray Abraham (actor), Tami Mor (costume designer), Leland Orser (actor), Craig J. Nevius (writer),

Plot: Bonnie and Clyde were no match for Depression Era gangster George "Babyface" Nelson and his moll Helen Womack. Constantly on the lam from the law and from Chicago's biggest crime lord Al Capone, Babyface and his female accomplice leave a trail of blood and bullets in their path towards making history.

Keywords: character-name-in-title, fbi-chief, gangster, independent-film, remake
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama,

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.

Dillinger (1973)

Actors: Samuel Z. Arkoff (producer), Lawrence Gordon (producer), Cloris Leachman (actress), Michelle Phillips (actress), Ben Johnson (actor), J. Edgar Hoover (actor), Richard Dreyfuss (actor), Geoffrey Lewis (actor), Roy Jenson (actor), Frank McRae (actor), Read Morgan (actor), Warren Oates (actor), John P. Ryan (actor), Harry Dean Stanton (actor), Robert Papazian (producer),

Plot: After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.

Keywords: 1930s, alley, american-midwest, arrest, bank-robbery, bar, based-on-true-story, beretta, blood, blood-spatter
Genres: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama,
Taglines: ...he was the gangster's gangster.

Quotes:

Baby Face Nelson: If he screams like that again, the hunters downstairs are going to call the cops.::John Dillinger: What do you expect me to do about it?::Baby Face Nelson: Finish him! I wouldn't ask no different!::Billie Frechette: Oh God, you can't do that!::Pretty Boy Floyd: Leave the boy be! He deserves a chance. A man deserves a chance.

Baby Face Nelson: One thing. If we're going to work together, I want it understood I don't take no orders.::Pretty Boy Floyd: I believe this is Mr. Dillinger's gang.::Baby Face Nelson: Bah! He ain't my leader, I've got my own way of taking banks. I come in shooting, I kill everyone inside and I grab the dough. Very easy, it works very well. You don't like it, you get someone else.

John Dillinger: What chased you out of Cookson Hills, Floyd?::Pretty Boy Floyd: Well, the Feds were getting to my folks, and it's hard on them. And then damn Bonnie and Clyde ran through there. Weren't safe for no one. Bunch of mad dogs, that's what they were, and I ain't sorry to see them go.::John Dillinger: No; small timers get into it, and ruin it for everyone.

Samuel Cowley: Can't touch Dillinger, no federal offense; he doesn't deserve to be there. I don't want anyone up there I can't legally shoot!::Melvin Purvis: Shoot Dillinger and we'll figure out a way to make it legal.

John Dillinger: I rob banks for a living, what do you do?

John Dillinger: All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy.

John Dillinger: My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!

John Dillinger: Now nobody get nervous, you ain't got nothing to fear. You're being robbed by the John Dillinger Gang, that's the best there is! These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments in your life; don't make it your last!

Billie Frechette: I don't want to be there when they get you. Promise me that I won't have to be there when they get you.::John Dillinger: They're not going to get me.::Billie Frechette: I just don't want to see it. I just don't want to see it John.::John Dillinger: They won't ever get me. I may not live forever, but I'd be a damn fool not to try!

Billie Frechette: Well, what did he sound like?::John Dillinger: Who?::Billie Frechette: Melvin Purvis.::John Dillinger: Don't you ever say that name again!

Ma Barker's Killer Brood (1960)

Actors: Paul Dubov (actor), Dan White (actor), Charles Tannen (actor), Wally Rose (actor), Myrna Dell (actress), Lurene Tuttle (actress), Dan Riss (actor), Paul Power (actor), Byron Foulger (actor), Tristram Coffin (actor), Myron Healey (actor), Riley Hill (actor), Nelson Leigh (actor), Owen Bush (actor), Gene Kauer (composer),

Plot: From dust-bowl days in Oklahoma to an opulent Florida hideout under siege, Ma Barker (Lurene Tuttle of "Psycho"), leads her sons astray while maintaining a consultation sideline for the likes of John Dillinger, Alvin 'Creepy' Karpis, Baby Face Nelson and Machine Gun Kelly.

Keywords: 1930s, gangster, great-depression, independent-film, low-budget-film, machine-gun, murder, robbery
Genres: Crime, Drama,
Taglines: No. 1 Female Gangster Of All Time! she taught and trained her four sons to be criminals! True! Authentic!

Quotes:

Machine Gun Kelly: Look friend, no one puts the rush on Machine Gun Kelly's girl.::Katherine Clark 'Ma' Barker: Now, now, Kelly. You want to shoot it out with Johnny Dillinger you better go outside. Don't you go messin' around on my new furniture.::[Dillinger laughs at Kelly's shocked face]

Lou, Kelly's Girl: Why you old battle axe we wouldn't give you a-::Katherine Clark 'Ma' Barker: Oh sweet child! You say that again and I'll rattle your tonsils till that mink turns into the rabbit it is! I've got no time for cheats or...phony blondes!

Katherine Clark 'Ma' Barker: Show him boys::George Barker: Where did you get these?::Fred as a Boy: Out of the collection plate.::Katherine Clark 'Ma' Barker: Without anyone being the wiser. That took guts!::George Barker: How long has this been going on?::Katherine Clark 'Ma' Barker: Oh a couple of weeks. It was their own idea. I thought it was kinda cute.::Doc as a Boy: Pretty slick, eh Pop?::George Barker: What kind of mother are you?! Letting your sons steal from church!::Katherine Clark 'Ma' Barker: Not letting them, George, encouraging them.

Katherine Clark 'Ma' Barker: Don't you go tryin to deny it. I told Al and the boys if you shot off your bourbon mouth at that bar and got us in dutch I was going to finish you. I was going to do something about it! Now finish your pie.::George Barker: Oh..now Ma [nervous laughter] , you wouldn't do anything...foolish. Not to me...why after all, I'm your...I'm your husband!::Katherine Clark 'Ma' Barker: I'm just about to divorce you, the quick way.

Doc Barker aka Austin Bennett: Lou, honey, let's get lost while Ma and Kelly talk business.::Katherine Clark 'Ma' Barker: [laughing] Oh Kelly, no wonder you like to take Lou with you wherever you go.::Machine Gun Kelly: I don't getcha Ma.::Katherine Clark 'Ma' Barker: She leads real easy::Lou, Kelly's Girl: You're much older than I thought, may I call you grandma?::Katherine Clark 'Ma' Barker: I ain't a grandma yet. I keep my boys away from the likes of you.::Machine Gun Kelly: Lou honey, Ma sure toppped you that time.

Lou, Kelly's Girl: [Ma grabs Lou's mink wrap, throws it on the ground and shoots it] Well why did you do that?!::Katherine Clark 'Ma' Barker: Thought I saw it move and I didn't want it to bite you.

Katherine Clark 'Ma' Barker: Are you offering any cash?::Machine Gun Kelly: Of course we are. Lou figured we'd pay about-::Lou, Kelly's Girl: [interrupts] Not one red cent!::Machine Gun Kelly: But honey you said 50 grand.::Lou, Kelly's Girl: That was before we found Ma alone.::Katherine Clark 'Ma' Barker: I never heard of such a thing! Trying to steal another mob's kidnap, why, it ain't honest!::Machine Gun Kelly: You're in no spot to refuse Ma.::Katherine Clark 'Ma' Barker: Do you want to gamble on that?::Machine Gun Kelly: Can you beat four of a kind?::Katherine Clark 'Ma' Barker: Depends on how big they are.::Lou, Kelly's Girl: I'd call them aces::Katherine Clark 'Ma' Barker: Oh honey, you've enver been known to be very bright. [laughs] They look more like jokers to me!::Machine Gun Kelly: You're slippin Ma. A joker is still an ace.::Katherine Clark 'Ma' Barker: Not in Texas poker! We strip out the joker and that's just what I'm going to do with your bad hand. [calls] Fred! [Steps out with a machine gun]::Lou, Kelly's Girl: That's a pretty low card Ma.::Katherine Clark 'Ma' Barker: Well, maybe I'd better draw another. [calls] Karpis! [he steps out with another machine gun]::John Dillinger: [Kelly pulls out a handgun] You better draw your limit Ma, and fast. I'm losing patience.::Katherine Clark 'Ma' Barker: [calls] Baby Face Nelson! [There is a pause while Kelly realized they are outnumbered] And if Fred and Karpis and Baby Face and me ain't enough, I've got a wild card, a real wild card...[calls] Johnny Dillinger [he fires off a round at the ground near their feet]::John Dillinger: Fives beat fours, I'd say that Ma has the best hand.::Katherine Clark 'Ma' Barker: [Laughing] After this, folks'll be callin you 'Pop' Gun Kelly!

The FBI Story (1959)

Actors: David McMahon (actor), Ray Montgomery (actor), Parley Baer (actor), J. Edgar Hoover (actor), Jack Hendricks (actor), Tom Monroe (actor), Murray Hamilton (actor), Sam Flint (actor), Roy Gordon (actor), Terry Frost (actor), Robert Clarke (actor), Ben Erway (actor), John Damler (actor), George Pembroke (actor), Burt Mustin (actor),

Plot: The story of the FBI unfolds through the eyes of one of its agents. During his career he investigates gangsters, swindlers, the klu klux klan, Nazi agents and cold war spies.

Keywords: acronym-in-title, airplane-accident, airport, anti-semitism, argentina, barbecue, based-on-book, bronx-new-york-city, burning-cross, christmas-tree
Genres: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller,
Taglines: The fury of America's fight for decency ! You are crouched in a basement stairway opposite a theatre in Chicago. Keep your eyes on that FBI man across the street. He has set the trap for deadly public enemy, John Dillinger...

Quotes:

John Michael Hardesty: [Opening narration] Webster's International Dictionary defines murder as the unlawful taking of human life by another human being. On a November evening in 1955 the definition became obsolete. A mass murder was being planned.

John Gilbert Graham: [after being arrested for murder] In case I get any mail, you can send it to Canon City Prison for the next month or so. After that you can send it to Hell!

Firing range instructor: [Holding up an automatic weapon] Let me repeat again - get to know this weapon. Craftiness can solve many a criminal case, but with hoodlums you sometimes need a good conscientious, hard-working machine gun.

Lucy Ann Hardesty: Chip, you can't just get married like ordering a ham sandwich!::John Michael Hardesty: You can if you're hungry!

Sam Crandall: [Saying goodbye to John and Lucy as they leave on their honeymoon] Good luck! I hope the fish are biting.::John Michael Hardesty: [With a knowing smile] I was kinda hopin' they wouldn't be.

John Michael Hardesty: On Sunday morning he left the house. He couldn't be going to work. Since he was a Communist, we knew he wasn't going to church.

Guns Don't Argue (1957)

Actors: Lash La Rue (actor), Ralph Moody (actor), Percy Helton (actor), Bill Baldwin (actor), Bill Baldwin (actor), Myron Healey (actor), Robert Bice (actor), Jim Davis (actor), William Boyett (actor), Paul Dubov (actor), Sam Edwards (actor), Sam Flint (actor), Richard Crane (actor), Jim Davis (actor), Hank Patterson (actor),

Genres: Crime, Drama,
Taglines: . . . and dead men don't talk!