Dillinger is a 1945 gangster film telling the story of John Dillinger. This is the first major film starring Lawrence Tierney (he's credited as "And introducing Lawrence Tierney"). The B-film 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 MGM 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 is shot at Big Bear Lake, California. Gangster film buffs will notice movie thugs Cook, Ciannelli, and Laurence appearing as part of Dillinger's gang. Image File history File links Dillinger (1945 movie) poster This is a copyrighted poster. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... John Dillinger John Herbert Dillinger (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American bank robber, considered by some to be a notorious and dangerous criminal, while others considered him a Robin Hood-like hero. ... Lawrence Tierney in Born to Kill (1947) Lawrence Tierney (March 15, 1919 – (February 26, 2002) was an American actor. ... The term B-movie originally referred to a film designed to be distributed as the lower half of a double feature, often a genre film featuring cowboys, gangsters or vampires. ... This article is about the term as used in media and computing; for more specific uses, see Black and White. ... Fritz Lang Friedrich Anton Christian Lang (December 5, 1890 - August 2, 1976) was an Austrian film director, screenwriter and occasional film producer, one of the best known emigrés from Germanys school of expressionism to work in Hollywood. ... DVD (sometimes called a Digital Versatile Disc [1]) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This still from The Big Combo (1955) demonstrates the visual style of film noir at its most extreme. ... Big Bear Lake is a city located in San Bernardino County, California. ...

Awards

The screenplay by Philip Yordan was nominated for Best Writing, Original Screenplay Academy Award. Philip Yordan (April 1, 1914 - March 24, 2003) was a popular and talented screenwriter of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...

Cast

• 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