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IMDbBest Writing Original Screenplay | 1946 | Philip
Many conservative social and religious groups demanded that the film be withdrawn or banned outright because of what they considered its "brutal and sensational" subject matter. The Chicago Censorship Board banned the film from being shown in Chicago for two years. The film finally opened on May 30, 1947, at the Oriental Theater in downtown Chicago and at the Biograph Theater on the north side, where the real John Dillinger had just seen a movie--Manhattan Melodrama (1934)--the night he was ambushed and shot dead by the FBI..
Robert Mitchum lobbied for the lead role, but RKO decided that the film didn't suit their new star.
The first of four films made by Lawrence Tierney with director Max Nosseck. There was no love lost between them, however. In a magazine interview, Tierney said that he "hated" Nosseck. The feeling, as it turned out, was mutual.
The Mickey Mouse cartoon that Dillinger watches at the Biograph Theater is a segment from Mickey's Gala Premier (1933).
Monogram was considered to be the "best" of the Poverty Row studios. The King brothers managed to get a good supporting cast and composer Dimitri Tiomkin on board.
"Helen Rogers: Who lives here? John Dillinger: What do you care? Helen Rogers: Well, I just like to know where I am. John Dillinger: You're with me."