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Dillinger: Public Enemy No. 1

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.

Date: 11/01/1934

Rating: 5.0

Cast: John Dillinger, Melvin Purvis

John Dillinger

Melvin Purvis