After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.

Warren Oates
as John Dillinger

Ben Johnson
as Melvin Purvis

Michelle Phillips
as Billie Frechette

Cloris Leachman
as Anna Sage

Harry Dean Stanton
as Homer Van Meter

Geoffrey Lewis
as Harry Pierpont

John P. Ryan
as Charles Mackley

Richard Dreyfuss
as Baby Face Nelson

John Martino
as Eddie Martin

Roy Jenson
as Samuel Cowley
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Warren Oates walks like bank robber John Dillinger, he talks like Dillinger, he shoots like Dillinger, and he is one of the best things about "Dillinger." John Milius wrote and directed this 1973 action packed biopic about the infamous bank robber. It acknowledges Arthur Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde" a ...