Public Enemies Page #2

Synopsis: 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.
Director(s): Michael Mann
Production: Universal Studios
  1 win & 14 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
70
Rotten Tomatoes:
68%
R
Year:
2009
140 min
$97,000,000
Website
1,039 Views


Congratulations

for Pretty Boy Floyd,

for which you have

my personal gratitude.

Second, you are, as of this moment,

the Special Agent in Charge

of the Chicago field office.

Are you up to that task, Agent Purvis?

Absolutely, sir.

Good afternoon, gentlemen.

Today, I am declaring the United

States of America's first War on Crime.

And I'd like to introduce one of our

finest G-men, Agent Melvin Purvis.

Agent Purvis will be in charge

of the field office in Chicago,

the center of the crime

wave sweeping America.

His task will be to get Public

Enemy Number 1, John Dillinger.

Director?

Mr. Purvis?

Say a few words, would you?

Mr. Purvis, how did you

run down Pretty Boy Floyd?

Through an apple orchard.

Mr. Tolson, when he's done, you

tell him if he needs anything,

you'll get it for him.

And tell him he may call me J. E.

Yeah, but people say John Dillinger's

a lot smarter and a lot tougher.

Well, nevertheless,

we will get him.

What makes you so sure?

We have two things

Dillinger does not.

What are they?

The Bureau's modern techniques

of fighting crime scientifically

and the visionary leadership

of our Director, J. Edgar Hoover.

The broad over there is looking at me.

She likes me.

How you doing, sweetheart?

Alvin. Good to see you.

How you doing?

Homer. Pete.

Me, Freddy and Doc are

looking to snatch a fellow.

He's a Saint Paul banker, Ed

Bremer. We need a few more hands.

I don't like kidnapping.

Well, robbing banks is getting tougher.

The public don't like kidnapping.

Who gives a damn

what the public likes?

I do. I hide out among them.

We gotta care what they think.

We also got a mail train

we're looking at, too.

By the way, if somebody was to get

pinched, who knows their way around?

Syndicate lawyer named Piquett,

Louis Piquett. We all use him.

What's it all about, this train?

Needs two or three more real

right guys to stick it up.

Be ready in a couple of months.

About $1,700,000. It's a

Federal Reserve shipment.

It's the kind of score

you go away on after.

Where you gonna go?

I don't know. Brazil,

Cuba. I like Varadero Beach.

What about you?

No plans.

Yeah, well, you ought to.

What we're doing

won't last forever.

We're having too

good a time today.

We ain't thinking

about tomorrow.

Keep me in mind on the train,

would you? All right. Thanks.

You know how much they made

taking that Hamm Brewery guy?

$100,000. Simmer down, Homer.

Come on, fellas.

Let's go to the bar.

I got three broads

convinced I own the place.

See you.

Is Homer staying

steady enough?

Homer's fine.

One rule I learned

from Walter Dietrich,

never work with people

who are desperate.

Yeah, well, I got a rule,

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Ronan Bennett

Ronan Bennett (born 14 January 1956) is an Irish novelist and screenwriter. more…

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