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Dillinger

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Dil·lin·ger  (dln-jr), John 1902-1934.
American gangster who was declared Public Enemy Number One by the FBI in 1933 for his role in a string of bank robberies and at least three murders. He died in a gun battle with FBI agents in front of the Biograph Theater in Chicago.


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From Al Capone to Bonnie and Clyde to Ma Barker, the region has always been synonymous with gangsters - a reputation bolstered by the recent hit film Public Enemies, about mobster John Dillinger and starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale.
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Mann follows the string of bank robberies John Dillinger (Depp) and his crew pulled off between his well-orchestrated escape from an Indiana prison in 1933 and his death at the hands of federal agents on the crowded streets of Chicago 14 months later.
 
 
 
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