Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1945)

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EXPLOITATION PICTURE (Continued from Preceding Page) "DILLINGER" A Monogram Picture. Produced by King Bros. Directed by Max Nosseck. Cast: Edmiind Lowe. Anne Jeffreys, Lawrence Tierney, Eduardo Ciannelli. Marc Lawrence. Elisha Cook, Jr., Ralph Lewis, Ludwig Stossel. Else Jannsen. Original Screen Play by Phil Ynrrlan. Cameraman. Jackson Rose. ]„ John Dillinger (Lawrence Tierney), running out of money in a speakeasy, holds up a grocery store, which nets him $7.20 and a six months jail term. His cellmate is Specs (Edmund Lowe), an intelligent, soft-spoken, but dominating character, who gives Dillinger ideas for the future. 4. Dillinger obtains a knife and block of wood from a other prisoner, carves a gun and engineers his escape. 1 returns to the gang, kills Specs, then arranges a $300,0 mail car robbery, which fails and Kirk is killed, Dilling wounded. 5. With his moll, Helen (Anne Jeffreys), he takes his gar to a mountain hideout, brutally kills the occupants to pr. ; vent their informing and escapes with Helen to Chicag after the police flush the gang and capture Murph and Do 2. Dillinger meets Specs' pals. Kirk (Elisha Cook, Jr.), Doc (Marc Lawrence) and Murph (Eduardo Ciannelli) and promises to "spring" them when he is released. Freed, he arranges a daring .iail break and the gang embarks on a series of lucrative bank robberies, with Specs getting the lion's share as leader. 3. Resentful of Specs' position, Dillinger successfully stages their biggest bank "job" and takes over as head of the mob. Hiding in Tucson, Arizona, Dillinger is captured in a dentist's office when the deposed Specs tips off the police, and is sent to jail for trial. 6. Hiding in a rooming house, Dillinger is lured by th embittered Helen to a movie and is shot by FBI agents a he emerges. The G-men find exactly $7.20 in his pocketssole worldly goods of the man who dreamed of an empir built by crime. SAMPLES OF THE NEWSPAPER ADS T