He notices a customer with some spare money out and assures him, 'I'm not here for your money, I'm here for the bank's.' The men inside do not stop working, though, as the money bags are thrown to Pierpont, and Dillinger takes the bank manager as a hostage. He quietly backs into the doorway and taps his rifle against the door to inform the robbers inside that they have company. He turns to his left at the sound of screeching tires and sees a car pull to a stop in the middle of the street. Outside, we see Van Meter acting as the lookout, hiding a rifle under his coat. When the manager appears to be stalling, Dillinger strikes him over the head with a pistol and gives him the choice of being a dead hero or a live coward. Makley clears money from the teller cages into a duffel bag. Pierpont, the lobby man, overpowers one of the guards and orders everyone to get on the floor, while Dillinger leaps over a railing, grabs the bank manager, and plays 'Spin the Dial,' by marching him to the vault at gunpoint. We next see Dillinger, Pierpont and Makley walking up the stairs into the lobby of a bank in Racine, Wisconsin, wearing dull overcoats and bowler hats. Dillinger exchanges brief words with a Mafia car dealer and close acquaintance Anna Sage ( Branka Katić). Meanwhile, Dillinger's gang reaches a hideout, where crooked Chicago cop Martin Zarkovich ( John Michael Bolger) convinces them to hide out in Chicago, where they can be sheltered by the American Mafia. The bullet goes straight through Floyd's chest and mortally wounds him. Purvis sets his sights, aims, and fires again. As Floyd sprints through an apple orchard, Purvis aims a rifle at him, fires one round, and misses, as Floyd fires back a burst from his Thompson submachine gun. In East Liverpool, Ohio, Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) and several other FBI agents are running down Pretty Boy Floyd ( Channing Tatum).

Unfortunately, a sniper on the wall shoots Dietrich in the back just as he is about to get into the car, mortally wounding him, and a furious Dillinger kicks Shouse out of the car. A running shootout ensues as the men run towards the waiting car. Everything goes as planned until Shouse suddenly beats a guard to death in a fit of rage and another guard gets shot. They force the guards to take off their uniforms at gunpoint. Dillinger admits to his identity, and at this point, he suddenly springs his handcuffs off, and he and Hamilton reveal shotguns and force the warden to open the door to the break room at gunpoint, at the moment that the other inmates come in. At the same time, the warden that meets Dillinger and Hamilton suddenly recognizes Dillinger. Inside the prison, several gang members, Charles Makley ( Christian Stolte), Harry Pierpont (David Wenham), Ed Shouse (Michael Vieau), Homer Van Meter (Stephen Dorff), and Walter Dietrich ( James Russo) acquire guns smuggled into the prison inside boxes of thread sent to the prison's shirt factory, with which they take a few guards hostage and march them to the changing rooms. The film opens in 1933 as John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) is brought to the Indiana State Prison by his partner John 'Red' Hamilton (Jason Clarke), under the disguise of a prisoner drop (with Dillinger posing as the prisoner). Released on July 1, 2009, the film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $214 million worldwide. Mann developed the project, and some scenes were filmed on location where they occurred, though the film is not entirely historically accurate. Set during the Great Depression, the film chronicles the final years of the notorious bank robber John Dillinger ( Johnny Depp) as he is pursued by FBI agent Melvin Purvis ( Christian Bale), Dillinger's relationship with Billie Frechette ( Marion Cotillard), as well as Purvis' pursuit of Dillinger's associates and fellow criminals John 'Red' Hamilton ( Jason Clarke), Homer Van Meter ( Stephen Dorff), Harry Pierpont ( David Wenham) and Baby Face Nelson ( Stephen Graham).īurrough originally intended to make a television miniseries about the Depression-era crime wave in the United States, but decided to write a book on the subject instead. It is an adaptation of Bryan Burrough's 2004 non-fiction book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34. Public Enemies is a 2009 American biographical crime drama film directed by Michael Mann, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ronan Bennett and Ann Biderman.

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