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Dillinger (1973)

Rate: 4
Viewed: 9/18

9/18: Ah, John Milius...he wasn't able to resist the myth of John Dillinger, eh?

By the way, Anna Sage was the so-called woman in red, but on that fateful night, she actually wore an orange skirt with a white blouse. The strong theatre lights at the Biograph only reflected it as red.

Most of Dillinger is a repeat of the same style as seen in Bonnie and Clyde. The longer the movie goes on, the more obvious it becomes. It's also cyclic in action which is drivel with cartoonish violence. John Milius has an obsession with Tommy guns as they're shown in many scenes.

Warren Oates may look like John Dillinger himself, but he's not interesting. Richard Dreyfuss is too hammy as Baby Face Nelson. The real Melvin Purvis wasn't that old like Ben Johnson; the famed FBI agent was 30 years old when he finally apprehended John Dillinger.

All in all, Dillinger is a retread of Bonnie and Clyde with an overreliance on violence to satisfy John Milius' craving for Tommy guns.

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