Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
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.
- prison
- chicago
- illinois
- prostitute
- gangster
- bank robber
- biography
- based on true story
- historical figure
- murder
- jail
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Warren Oates
John Dillinger
Ben Johnson
Melvin Purvis
Michelle Phillips
Billie Frechette
Cloris Leachman
Anna Sage
- Harry Dean Stanton — Homer Van Meter
- Geoffrey Lewis — Harry Pierpont
- John P. Ryan — Charles Mackley
- Richard Dreyfuss — Baby Face Nelson
- John Martino — Eddie Martin
- Roy Jenson — Samuel Cowley
- Read Morgan — Big Jim Wollard
- Frank McRae — Reed Youngblood
- Steve Kanaly — Pretty Boy Floyd
- Ann Ault — Mary (uncredited)
- Directed
- John Milius
- Written
- John Milius
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 123 ratings
- Studio
- American International Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
