Dillinger (1945 film)

Dillinger
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMax Nosseck
Written byWilliam Castle (uncredited)
Philip Yordan
Produced byFrank and Maurice King
StarringLawrence Tierney
Edmund Lowe
Anne Jeffreys
Elisha Cook Jr.
Eduardo Ciannelli
CinematographyJackson Rose
Edited byEdward Mann
Music byDimitri Tiomkin
Production
company
Monogram Pictures
Distributed byMonogram Pictures
Release date
  • April 6, 1945 (1945-04-06)
[1]
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$150,000[2] or $65,000[3] or $193,000[4]
Box office$2 million[5] or $4 million[3][4]

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 generally is not regarded as being film noir. Some sequences were shot at Big Bear Lake, California.

Plot summary

A newsreel plays, summing up the gangster life of John Dillinger in detail. At the end of the newsreel, Dillinger's father walks onto the stage and speaks to the movie audience about his son's childhood back in Indiana, which he says was ordinary and not very eventful, but concedes that his son had ambitions and wanted to go his own way. The young Dillinger left his town to find his fortune in Indianapolis, but soon ran out of money. The scene fades to a restaurant, where John is on a date and finds himself humiliated by the waiter who refuses to accept a check for the meal; John excuses himself, runs into a nearby grocery store and robs it for $7.20 in cash. He makes the clerk at the store believe he has a gun in his hand under the jacket.

John is soon arrested for this felony, and he is sentenced to prison. When incarcerated, he becomes good friends with Specs Green, his cell mate. Specs is an infamous bank robber whose gang – Marco Minnelli, Doc Madison and Kirk Otto – are also in the same prison. John is impressed by Specs and his experience and intelligence, and begins to look up to him as a father figure.

Because John has a much shorter sentence, he decides he will be the gang's outside help when he is released, intending to facilitate their escape. As soon as John is free, he holds up the box office at a movie theater. Before he does, he flirts with the female clerk, Helen Rogers, with the result that she refuses to identify him in the police line-up after the robbery. Instead she goes on a date with John.

John continues his criminal spree of robberies for money to finance the escape of Specs' gang. When he has enough, he devises a plan to smuggle a barrel of firearms to the gang at their quarry job site. The plan succeeds, they add John to their gang, then start a crime wave of robberies in the American Midwest.

Specs sends John to scout for new targets because he is the only one not recognized by the witnesses at the quarry at the time of the gang's escape. John checks out the Farmer's Trust Bank, where he poses as a potential customer to get inside the office. He reports back to the gang that the security system is too sophisticated for them to bypass.

Specs still wants to hit the bank, and getting tired of John's ego and trigger-happiness, he decides to get help from outside the gang. John suggests another way to get into the bank – with gas bombs. John convinces the rest of the gang of his way, and they successfully rob the bank. Back at the hideout, John demands the leader's usual double share of the loot. After John is captured but escapes from jail, he kills Specs and takes his place as the leader of the gang. Running low on cash, they decide to rob a mail train. In the process, gang member Kirk Otto is killed.

The gang part for a few weeks to lie low, and John and Helen go on a big shopping spree. They meet with the rest of the gang at a cabin lodge owned by Kirk's surrogate parents. They stay there for a while, but when the elderly couple calls the police, Dillinger kills them. Later, they realize that the police are closing in on them, so they plan to head to the Western States and continue robbing banks. Before going, Dillinger and his girlfriend spend an evening at the Biograph movie theater in Chicago. Exiting the theater, Dillinger sees the police coming after him. In a gunfight, he is killed in an alley, his only money is $7.20 – the same as what he took in his first robbery.

Cast

Production

Philip Yordan was an emerging writer who had been collaborating with George Beck. The King Brothers had a deal with Monogram Pictures and asked Beck to write for them but could not offer Beck's regular fee so he recommended Yordan instead. Yordan wrote Dillinger, after working on three filmed scripts for the Kings. The last of these scripts When Strangers Marry, he wrote with the help of the film's director William Castle. Castle also helped Yordan with the Dillinger script as he hoped to direct it.[6] Yordan recalled that Castle was of great assistance on the script.

According to Hollywood Reporter, the original story for the script, 'John Dillinger, Killer', was written by William K. Howard and Robert Tasker.[7] Yordan, who was officially the King Brothers' script editor, saw to it that he was frequently the only credited writer on their films.[8]

According to Philip Yordan, all the major studios had agreed not to make movies that might glorify actual gangsters by name, but Monogram was not part of it.[9] He says Louis B. Mayer asked Frank King to destroy the negative, but King refused when Mayer did not offer any compensation. Yordan says the film made $4 million of which he got a third.[3] This is incorrect, as 20th Century Fox completed and released the film Roger Touhy, Gangster a month or so before Monogram announced the Dillinger project. The only censorship that applied was a wartime prohibition of the export and import of 'Gangster' films that could negatively affect a film's profitability.[10] The prohibition on films depicting real-life criminals was introduced by the Hays office in August 1945 to prevent a new cycle of gangster movies building on the popularity of the Touhy and Dillinger films and Crime, Inc..[11]

The King Brothers wanted an unknown star to play the role of Dillinger because "it would be difficult for the public to accept a familiar face in the role" [12] and placed adverts in the trade press "WANTED FOR MURDER, JAIL BREAK, ROBBERY A Tough Guy to Play JOHN DILLINGER".[13] A month later, after visiting the Kings' office in person, and by one account, stealing a copy of the Dillinger script he found on a desk when nobody was there on his first visit, Lawrence Tierney was confirmed in the role.[14]

Reception

Yordan believes he should have won the Academy Award for Best Script, but that the Academy, led by Walter Wanger, deliberately overlooked it in favor of Marie Louise, "some picture made in Switzerland that nobody had ever seen".[3]

Yordan also claims that "Dillinger was one of the early crime films of its type. Darryl Zanuck ran that picture again and again, and used it for the basis of many pictures at Fox. In other words, I had created a style."[3]

Awards

Yordan was nominated for the Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay, earning Monogram Pictures its first Oscar nomination for a feature-length film release.[15]

The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:

See also

References

  1. ^ Motion Picture Herald. Apr 28, 1945 http://ia601400.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/35/items/motionpictureher1581unse/motionpictureher1581unse_jp2.zip&file=motionpictureher1581unse_jp2/motionpictureher1581unse_0735.jp2&scale=4&rotate=0. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ^ Frank Daugherty (Sep 14, 1945). "Letter From Hollywood". The Christian Science Monitor. p. 4.
  3. ^ a b c d e McGilligan, Patrick (1991). Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s. Berkeley: University of California Press – via ark.cdlib.org.
  4. ^ a b Flynn, Charles; McCarthy, Todd, eds. (1975). "Steve Broidy". Kings of the Bs : working within the Hollywood system : an anthology of film history and criticism. E. P. Dutton. p. 271.
  5. ^ A.H. WEILER (June 3, 1945). "BY WAY OF REPORT: The King Brothers Hit the Film Jackpot --C. Bennett, Producer, Etc.--Addenda Bennett, Inc. The 'Spider's' Webb Close Shave". New York Times. p. X3.
  6. ^ Castle, William. "Step right up! : ... I'm gonna scare the pants off America".
  7. ^ The Hollywood Reporter, June 20, 1944
  8. ^ http://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/PhilipYordan.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  9. ^ Rode, Alan K. "The Phillip Yordan Story" (PDF). filmnoirfoundation.org. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
  10. ^ The Gang's All Here, Fred Stanley, New York Times, 05 Nov 1944
  11. ^ Hays Office Curbs Gangster Films After 'Dillinger' Raps, The Hollywood Reporter, Vol. 84, Iss. 40, Aug 9, 1945
  12. ^ The Hollywood Reporter, July 7, 1944
  13. ^ Hollywood Reporter, September 18, 1944
  14. ^ Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy by Burt Kearns (University Press of Kentucky, 2022)
  15. ^ "1946". Retrieved 2019-10-18.
  16. ^ "AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains Nominees" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-08-05.

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