| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Movie Review

Public Enemy #1: The Legendary Outlaw John Dillinger. Prod. by Ben Loeterman. Ben Loeterman Productions, Inc., 2001. 60 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698; 1-800-344-3337; <shop@pbs.org>; <http://shop.pbs.org/education> [Sept. 23, 2002])

John Dillinger, remarks a historian in this engaging film, was "one of the hugest stories of the 1930s." In its retelling of that story, Public Enemy #1 focuses on the fourteen-month crime spree that brought Dillinger national notoriety in 1933 and 1934. Just released after nearly nine years' imprisonment for a bungled robbery, Dillinger held up a string of small-town banks, arranged the prison break of three confederates, himself escaped from prison (twice), raided police stations for weapons and bulletproof vests, and repeatedly eluded what seemed like certain capture. Dillinger, we are told, was cool headed, loyal, charming, funny, and, not incidentally, capable of vaulting six-to-seven-foot walls. . . .

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