Dillinger

Max Nosseck (director)
Philip Yordan (screenwriter)
Edmund Lowe, Anne Jeffreys, Eduardo Ciannelli, Lawrence Tierney (starring)

New York: Noel Meadow / Monogram Pictures, Circa 1945. Original program for the 1945 film. Features ad layouts, side-by-side comparison of Lawrence Tierney and the real John Dillinger, and various headline suggestions.

Dillinger (Tierney) robs a store, meets fellow gangster Specs (Lowe) in jail, and continues his heists once freed from prison, this time with a moll named Helen (Jeffreys), who eventually rats him out to the Fuzz.

Nominated for an Academy Award. Director Nosseck made good use of stock footage from previous gangster films.

Illustrated wrappers, saddle-stapled. 16 leaves. Very Good, with light foxing, faint bruising, and a vertical fold at the center.

Grant US. Hardy, The Gangster Film US. Okuda 440. Selby US. Spicer US. Stephens, pp. 85-86.


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