Public Enemies Page #3

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
1,047 Views


too. Stay away from the women.

Without women, it's

like back in the stir.

That's why they

invented whores.

Hey, hey, Anna.

How are you doing, big boy?

Who's this?

Veronica.

Veronica, Red.

Hi, Johnny.

Hey, Anna.

I don't know why you gave

that fellow the go-by,

but I'm awful glad you did.

What's your name?

Billie Frechette.

Can I buy you a drink?

Okay.

You got a name?

Yeah.

Jack. You dance, Jack?

I don't know how.

Come on.

How come you don't

know how to dance?

Frechette.

That French?

On my father's side.

There's an "e" at the end.

This is a two-step.

Blackbird

Where somebody waits for me

Sugar's sweet, so is he

Daddy's French.

What's on the other side?

My mama's

a Menominee Indian, okay?

Most men don't like that.

I ain't most men.

Yeah?

And I've been a dice girl, and I

check coats at the Steuben Club.

And what do you do?

I'm catching up.

Meeting somebody like you,

dark and beautiful,

like that bird in that song.

Blackbird, bye-bye

No one here can love

Or understand me

You cold?

What is it exactly

you do for a living?

I'm John Dillinger. I rob banks.

That's where all these

people here put their money.

Why did you tell me that?

You could have made up a story.

I'm not gonna lie to you.

That's a serious thing to

say to a girl you just met.

I know you.

Well, I don't know you.

I haven't been anyplace.

Well, some of the places

I've been ain't so hot.

Where I'm going is

a whole lot better.

Want to come along?

Boy, you are in a hurry!

If you were looking at what I'm

looking at, you'd be in a hurry, too.

Well,

it's me they're looking at this time.

You're beautiful.

They're looking at me

because they're not used to

having a girl in their restaurant

in a $3 dress.

Listen, doll.

That's 'cause they're all

about where people come from.

The only thing that's important

is where somebody's going.

Where are you going?

Anywhere I want.

Let's get out of here.

Hey, Johnny!

Go wait for me outside.

Gil.

Ever since I got out, I've

been working for Frank Nitti.

These guys are connected to

everybody all over the country now.

He looks like a barber.

Phil D'Andrea. Every time I

read about one of your bank jobs

where you give the customers

back their money, you crack me up.

You need anything, ask Gilbert.

Gilbert knows how to find me.

Thank you.

Where'd that girl go?

I don't know, sir.

She jumped in a cab

and took off.

This is Lowell Thomas.

From West Virginia comes accusations

by the Carnegie CoaI company

of Red influence

on the United Mine Workers' strike.

Meanwhile, in Racine, Wisconsin,

after raiding the American Trust Bank,

Public Enemy Number 1,

John Dillinger,

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Ronan Bennett

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

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