Dillinger (1973)
Country: US
Technical: col 107m
Director: John Milius
Cast: Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips, Harry Dean Stanton, Cloris Leachman
Synopsis:
The Dillinger gang robs banks across the Mid-West, pursued remorselessly by G-Man, Melvin Purvis.
Review:
Made by Roger Corman's American International Pictures, this follows in the wake of a host of Bonnie and Clyde imitators, but then Corman had been doing gangster films long before that. Milius, clearly taking the violence in Penn's masterpiece as a benchmark, directs with narrative drive and bloodthirsty realism, as in the Westerns of the time, and this is one of the better of its kind. However, we are not as invested in the characters and the law of diminishing returns sets in. Richard Dreyfuss sports an exuberant cameo as Baby Face Nelson.
Country: US
Technical: col 107m
Director: John Milius
Cast: Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips, Harry Dean Stanton, Cloris Leachman
Synopsis:
The Dillinger gang robs banks across the Mid-West, pursued remorselessly by G-Man, Melvin Purvis.
Review:
Made by Roger Corman's American International Pictures, this follows in the wake of a host of Bonnie and Clyde imitators, but then Corman had been doing gangster films long before that. Milius, clearly taking the violence in Penn's masterpiece as a benchmark, directs with narrative drive and bloodthirsty realism, as in the Westerns of the time, and this is one of the better of its kind. However, we are not as invested in the characters and the law of diminishing returns sets in. Richard Dreyfuss sports an exuberant cameo as Baby Face Nelson.
Country: US
Technical: col 107m
Director: John Milius
Cast: Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips, Harry Dean Stanton, Cloris Leachman
Synopsis:
The Dillinger gang robs banks across the Mid-West, pursued remorselessly by G-Man, Melvin Purvis.
Review:
Made by Roger Corman's American International Pictures, this follows in the wake of a host of Bonnie and Clyde imitators, but then Corman had been doing gangster films long before that. Milius, clearly taking the violence in Penn's masterpiece as a benchmark, directs with narrative drive and bloodthirsty realism, as in the Westerns of the time, and this is one of the better of its kind. However, we are not as invested in the characters and the law of diminishing returns sets in. Richard Dreyfuss sports an exuberant cameo as Baby Face Nelson.