John Dillinger

Directed by Michael Mann. With Christian Bale, Johnny Depp, David Wenham, Christian Stolte. The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.

The criminal past of Johnny Depp's family means he has always been fascinated by John Dillinger, the man he portrays in Michael Mann's new film Public Enemies.

Public Enemies is a 2009 American biographical mob drama film directed by Michael Mann and written by Mann, Ronan Bennett and Ann Biderman.

No one could stop Dillinger and his gang.

Compare the Public Enemies movie to the John Dillinger true story, including girlfriend Billie Frechette and FBI Agent Melvin Purvis. Watch real John Dillinger video after he is arrested for bank robbery and escapes from jail with a toy gun.

'I rob banks,' John Dillinger would sometimes say by way of introduction. It was the simple truth. That was what he did. For the 13 months between the day he escaped from prison and the night he lay dying in an alley, he robbed banks. It was his lifetime. Michael Mann's 'Public Enemies' accepts that stark fact and refuses any temptation to soften it. Dillinger was not a nice man.

Infamous bank robber John Dillinger was at the movies on the steamy July night in 1934 when FBI agents gunned him down outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre.

Johnny Depp as John Dillinger Christian Bale as Melvin Purvis. Realisation: Michael Mann Musique : Elliot Goldenthal Montage : Jeffrey Ford et Paul Rubell Dé...