Film Homage John Dillinger Manhattan Melodrama 1934 Mug Shot Tucson Arizona Police Department 1934 #1
by David Lee Guss
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Film Homage John Dillinger Manhattan Melodrama 1934 Mug Shot Tucson Arizona Police Department 1934 #1
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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Movie makers have been fascinated by the outlaw since the earliest days of the "flickers." The first Western, "The Great Train Robbery" (1903) ends with one of its outlaws bonding with the audience by shooting directly at the camera.
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Billy the Kid, Frank and Jesse James and John Dillinger have been reincarnated several times on the silver screen. Dillinger had three: Monogram's 1945 sleeper hit "Dillinger" starring the volatile Lawrence Tierney (1919-2002),
John Milius' 1973 Dillinger starring the versatile Warren Oates (1928-1982) in one of his few roles as a leading man and Michael Mann's 2009 "Public Enemies," with Johnny Depp.
"Enemies" was actually filmed at Chicago's Biograph Theater where Dillinger was shot to death in an alley on July 23, 1934, moments after emerging from the evening showing of "Manhattan Melodrama."
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) had labeled Dillinger, "Public Enemy Number One," putting an unprecedented $10,000 bounty on his head.
Clark Gable boldly walks to his gas chamber execution in the final scene from "Melodrama."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHhJ-UramQc
{NOTE: A Lux Radio Theater adaptation, hosted and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, was aired featuring the stars of the movie, William Powell & Myrna Loy, on 9/9/1940.}
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