Dillinger (1945 film)
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Directed by | Max Nosseck |
Produced by | Frank and Maurice King |
Written by | William Castle (uncredited) Philip Yordan |
Starring | Lawrence Tierney Edmund Lowe Anne Jeffreys Elisha Cook Jr. Eduardo Ciannelli |
Music by | Dimitri Tiomkin |
Cinematography | Jackson Rose |
Release date(s) | 1945 |
Running time | 70 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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Dillinger is a 1945 gangster film telling the story of John Dillinger. The film was directed by Max Nosseck. Dillinger was the first major film to star Lawrence Tierney. The B-movie was shot in black and white and features a smoke-bomb bank robbery edited into the film from the 1937 Fritz Lang film, You Only Live Once. The film was released on DVD by Warner Bros. for the Film Noir Classic Collections 2 in 2005 even though the film is generally regarded as not being film noir. Some of the film was shot at Big Bear Lake, California.
[edit] Awards
Philip Yordan was nominated for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay.
[edit] Cast
- Lawrence Tierney as John Dillinger
- Edmund Lowe as Specs Green
- Anne Jeffreys as Helen Rogers
- Eduardo Ciannelli as Marco Minelli (as Eduardo Cianelli)
- Marc Lawrence as Doc Madison
- Elisha Cook Jr. as Kirk Otto
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