Dillinger (1945 film)

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Dillinger

Dillinger film poster
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 Flag of the United States 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.

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Philip Yordan was nominated for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay.

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