Dillinger theatrical poster 1945 color added 2015
by David Lee Guss
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Dillinger theatrical poster 1945 color added 2015
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David Lee Guss
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"The film was directed by Max Nosseck. Dillinger was the first major film to star Lawrence Tierney. The B-movie was shot in black and white and features a smoke-bomb bank robbery edited into the film from the 1937 Fritz Lang film, You Only Live Once.
Philip Yordan was an emerging writer who had been collaborating with George Beck. The King Brothers had a deal with Monogram Pictures and wanted Beck to write them a gangster picture but could not offer Beck's regular fee so he recommended Yordan instead. Yordan wrote Dillinger but Monogram's head of production Steve Broidy thought it would cost $50,000 and would be too expensive unless they could hire a name actor to play the lead, like Chester Morris.
Yordan wanted Lawrence Tierney to play the role as 'boy he looked like Dillinger and he was mean.' He refused to see the script unless he was cast. Yordan went on to write other scripts for the King Brothers instead, The Unknown Guest and When Strangers Marry. Both were successful and Tierney was cast in Dillinger, which was given a decent budget.
According to Philip Yordan, all the major studios had an agreement to no longer make gangster pictures, but Monogram was not part of it. He says Louis B. Mayer asked Frank King to destroy the negative but King refused when Mayer did not offer any compensation. Yordan says the film made $4 million of which he got a third.
Yordan also claims that "Dillinger was one of the first crime films of its type. Darryl Zanuck ran that picture again and again, and used it for the basis of many pictures at Fox. 'In other words, I had created a style.'"
The director Max Cossack was 'forced to leave Germany due to his Jewish background in 1933, thereafter active as writer/director in France and America.'
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