All right, get outta there.
Let's go.
All the way down and take a seat.
Let's go. Stop your dragging. Let's go! Move!
Let's go. Let's go.
- Let's go! Line up! Line up! - Move! Move! Right turn!
- Stay with me! - [PIERPONT]: Keep your head down!
Line up! Line up!
Everybody ready? Come on.
- Line up! - Get off me!
- Come on. - One...
Now march us to the changing rooms... two, three.
- Go. Let's go. - Line up!
I know you.
You just got paroled outta here. You didn't last very long.
When was that?
Eight weeks ago.
Did nine years.
John. John Dillinger.
That's right.
My friends call me John.
But a son-of-a-bitch screw like you better address me as Mr. Dillinger.
Open it! Open it or I'll blow you in half.
Against the wall.
- Take your clothes off! - Take your clothes off, now!
You did it, kid.
Sure did, Walter.
Give me the goddamn jacket.
Red!
Come on. Hurry up!
[PIERPONT]: Get undressed. Take your clothes off.
Come on.
You eyeballing me, you son of a bitch?
Cut it out, Shouse!
Shouse! Shouse!
Lockdown!
Bring them in from the yard!
There they are!
Walter! Come on.
Walter Dietrich's dead 'cause of you.
The bastard guard wouldn't do what he was told, Johnny.
Homer?
Just let him have it, Johnny.
Pete?
It's up to you.
How far is the farm?
3.2 miles.
We're ready!
Okay. Let's go!
Burn these, okay, honey?
Thanks for getting us out, Red.
It was Johnny's plan.
Yeah, but thanks.
Take me with you, mister.
I can't, darling. I'm sorry.
Welcome back, Pete.
Let's go to Chicago and make some money.
Floyd, halt!
Melvin, look out!
Pretty Boy Floyd, you are under arrest.
It's Charles. Charles Floyd.
- Who are you? - Melvin Purvis,
Bureau of Investigation.
Where is your friend, Harry Campbell?
I believe you've killed me.
So you can go rot in hell.
Sport.
- Red, call Oscar. - Okay.
- Hi, there, doll. - Let's switch out the shorts.
We gonna use Berman?
Yeah. Get a Plymouth and an Essex.
Where them other gals?
- You get a hold of Marty? - Sure did.
How you doing, Mr. Johnny?
Doing great, Sport.
The main spring's too tight on this one. Jammed twice.
I cut off one coil.
And it rides up and to the right.
I widen port.
- Hey, Red. - Hi, Harry.
Harry, this is Pete. Pete, this is Harry Berman.
Hi, Pete. How you doing?
- So, what'd we got? - Got a couple nice straight eights.
Bored them out. Rebuilt the carburetors myself.
These are some really fast cars.
Perfect work cars for a couple of gentlemen.
- Johnny, how are you? - Good.
Marty,
tell me that me and my boys are okay.
As long as you stay in East Chicago,
you're in safe haven, any time you want.
Extra cake's in here.
Thanks.
Hey, Anna.
I opened up in Chicago on Halsted now.
Come by and see the girls.
How are you?
On the floor! Now! Now! Do it! Do it! On the floor, now! Now!
Let's play a game, Mr. President. It's called Spin the Dial.
You, hands up! Come on. And, you, sit down!
On the floor!
Relax, pops.
Open it up.
- Empty it! Move, move! - Shut up!
It's one of these.
You can be a dead hero or a live coward.
Get it open. All of it!
You, hands up. Come on!
Empty it! All of it!
Hey, sit down!
Push it to me!
And don't move!
We got company!
Move outta there!
You can put it away. Not here for your money. Here for the bank's money.
I said, move it outta there!
What for?
Come here, sister. Let's take a ride.
Get down!
Beat it. You, too, sister.
Come here.
There you go, doll. Something to remember me by.
You know, when I'm not doing this, I'm a scout for the movies.
Really?
Join hands.
We'll freeze here!
No. You'll worm your way outta there in about 10 minutes.
Why do we need this?
Because criminals flee in fast automobiles across state lines,
thereby defeating local jurisdiction...
because there is no federal police force to stop them.
By my tally, your Bureau wants to spend...
more taxpayers' dollars catching crooks...
than what the crooks you catch, stole in the first place.
Well, that's ridiculous. The Bureau has apprehended...
kidnappers and bank robbers who have...
- stolen up to and in excess of... - Really?
How many have you apprehended?
We have arrested and arraigned 213 wanted felons.
No, I mean you, Director Hoover. How many?
Well, as Director, I administer.
How many have you arrested personally?
I have never arrested anybody.
You've never arrested anybody.
Well, of course not. I am an administrator.
With no field experience.
You are shockingly unqualified, aren't you, sir?
You have never personally conducted...
a criminal investigation in the field in your life.
I think you're a front.
I think your prowess as a lawman is a myth...
created from the hoopla of headlines by Mr. Suydam, your publicist there.
Crimebusters, G-men, you're setting yourself up as a czar?
That's running wild in my estimation.
A crime... is what runs wild.
If this country requires a Bureau such as yours,
I question whether you are the person fit to run it.
Well, I will not be judged by a kangaroo court of venal politicians.
Your appropriation increase is denied.
Feed the following to Walter Winchell.
McKellar is a Neanderthal,
and he is on a personal vendetta to destroy me.
We will not contest him in his committee room.
We will fight him on the front page.
Where is John Dillinger?
Agent Purvis, congratulations.
Thank you, sir.
- May I ask why? - They're ready for him.
This is Henry Suydam. He's our expert in press relations.
Congratulations for Pretty Boy Floyd,
for which you have my personal gratitude.
Second, you are, as of this moment,
the Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago field office.
Are you up to that task, Agent Purvis?
Absolutely, sir.
Good afternoon, gentlemen.
Today, I am declaring...
the United States of America's first War on Crime.
And I'd like to introduce one of our finest G-men, Agent Melvin Purvis.
Agent Purvis will be in charge of the field office in Chicago,
the center of the crime wave sweeping America.
His task... will be to get...
Public Enemy Number One, John Dillinger.
- Director? - Mr. Purvis?
Say a few words, would you?
Mr. Purvis, how did you run down Pretty Boy Floyd?
Um...
through an apple orchard.
Mr. Tolson, when he's done, you tell him if he needs anything,
you'll get it for him.
And tell him he may call me J. E.
Yeah, but people say John Dillinger's a lot smarter and a lot tougher.
Well, nevertheless, we will get him.
What makes you so sure?
We have two things Dillinger does not.
What are they?
The Bureau's modern techniques, of fighting crime scientifically...
and the visionary leadership...
of our Director, J. Edgar Hoover.
The broad over there is looking at me.
She likes me.
How you doing, sweetheart?
- Alvin. - Good to see you.
How you doing?
Homer. Pete.
Me, Freddy and Doc are looking to snatch a fellow.
He's a Saint Paul banker, Ed Bremer.
We need a few more hands.
I don't like kidnapping.
Well, robbing banks is getting tougher.
The public don't like kidnapping.
Who gives a damn what the public likes?
I do. I hide out among them.
We gotta care what they think.
We also got a mail train we're looking at, too.
By the way, if somebody was to get pinched,
who knows their way around?
Syndicate lawyer named Piquett, Louis Piquett. We all use him.
What's it all about, this train?
Needs 2 or 3 more real right guys to stick it up.
Be ready in a couple a months.
About 1 million 700 thousand dollars.
It's a Federal Reserve shipment.
It's the kinda score you go away on after.
Where you gonna go?
I don't know. Brazil, Cuba. I like Varadero Beach.
What about you?
No plans.
Yeah, well, you ought to.
What we're doing won't last forever.
We're having too good a time today.
We ain't thinking about tomorrow.
Keep me in mind on the train, would you?
All right. Thanks.
You know how much they made taking that Hamm Brewery guy?
- A 100 thousand. - Simmer down, Homer.
Come on, fellas. Let's go to the bar.
I got 3 broads convinced I own the place.
See you.
Is Homer staying steady enough?
Homer's fine.
One rule I learned from Walter Dietrich,
never work with people who are desperate.
Yeah, well, I got a rule, too. Stay away from the women.
Without women, it's like back in the stir.
That's why they invented whores.
Hey, hey, Anna.
How are you doing, big boy?
- Who's this? - Veronica.
Veronica, Red.
- Hi, Johnny. - Hey, Anna.
I don't know why you gave that fellow the go-by, but, uh...
I'm awful glad you did.
What's your name?
Billie Frechette.
Can I buy you a drink?
Okay.
You got a name?
Yeah.
- Jack. - You dance, Jack?
I don't know how.
Come on.
How come you don't know how to dance?
Frechette.
That French?
On my father's side. There's an "e" at the end.
This is a two-step.
¶ Blackbird ¶
¶ Where somebody waits for me ¶
¶ Sugar's sweet, so is he ¶
Daddy's French. What's on the other side?
My mama's a Menominee Indian, okay?
Most men don't like that.
I ain't most men.
Yeah?
And I've been a dice girl,
and I check coats at the Steuben Club.
And what do you do?
I'm catching up.
Meeting somebody like you,
dark and beautiful,
like that bird in that song.
¶ Blackbird, bye-bye ¶
¶ No one here can love ¶
¶ Or understand me ¶
You cold?
What is it exactly you do for a living?
I'm John Dillinger. I rob banks.
That's where all these people here put their money.
Why did you tell me that?
You could have made up a story.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
That's a serious thing to say to a girl you just met.
I know you.
Well, I don't know you.
I haven't been anyplace.
Well, some of the places I've been ain't so hot.
Where I'm going is a whole lot better.
Wanna come along?
Boy, are you in a hurry!
If you were looking at what I'm looking at,
you'd be in a hurry, too.
Well,
it's me they're looking at this time.
You're beautiful.
They're looking at me because they're not used to...
having a girl in their restaurant...
in a 3 dollar dress.
Listen, doll.
That's 'cause they're all about where people come from.
The only thing that's important is where somebody's going.
Where are you going?
Anywhere I want.
Let's get outta here.
Hey, Johnny!
Go wait for me outside.
Gil.
Ever since I got out, I've been working for Frank Nitti.
These guys are connected to everybody all over the country now.
He looks like a barber.
Phil D'Andrea. Every time I read about one of your bank jobs...
where you give the customers back their money, you crack me up.
You need anything, ask Gilbert.
Gilbert knows how to find me.
Thank you.
- Where'd that girl go? - I don't know, sir.
She jumped in a cab and took off.
This is Lowell Thomas.
From West Virginia comes accusations...
by the Carnegie Coal company of Red influence...
on the United Mine Workers' strike.
Meanwhile, in Racine, Wisconsin, after raiding the American Trust Bank,
Public Enemy Number One John Dillinger...
roams the wilds pursued by the hounds of justice.
And in Geneva, the League of Nations...
voted the USSR full membership.
According to the bank teller, Barbara Patzke,
this is John Dillinger's coat.
It's made by Shragge Quality out of St. Louis.
Price, 35 dollars, windproof 32-ounce wool. Top stitching.
Thank you, Agent Baum.
Agents in our offices across the country
are identifying every store in the United States that sold this overcoat.
Then we will cross-reference every Dillinger associate...
at locales where that coat was sold.
He was in a place.
He got cold. He bought a coat.
Unless he was traveling through,
he was being harbored nearby.
If he returns, we will be there.
It is by such methods...
that our Bureau will get John Dillinger.
Now, Doris, would you please contact...
the Chicago area telephone exchange supervisors.
There are six.
Request appointments for Carter Baum and myself.
Gentlemen,
shortly you will be provided Thompson submachine guns, BAR's...
and a 351 Winchester semi-automatic rifle.
We are pursuing hardened killers. They will be dangerous.
And those of you who aren't prepared for that should go.
And if you are going to go, please go now.
This is a phone call conversation...
from a car dealership from 27 minutes ago.
Harry Berman.
When you drop it, leave the keys on the floorboard.
- I got a DeSoto. - Okay.
Interior's no good.
How did we get to Berman?
Off the Dillinger coat.
The coat was bought in Cicero, lllinois,
a few doors down from Berman's dealership.
Now, we know Berman. He's been supplying cars...
to the Syndicate since Capone.
When Dillinger bought that coat,
he must have been at Berman's switching cars.
As soon as they call to drop the DeSoto, we'll tail it.
I want men on this around the clock.
May I check your coat, sir?
Yes, thank you.
You ran out on me.
You left me standing on the sidewalk.
If you're gonna be my girl,
you're gonna have to swear to me that you'll never ever do that again.
- Hey... - Brown overcoat.
I'm not your girl.
And I'm not gonna say that.
- I'm waiting. - So am I.
"I'm never gonna run out on you ever again". Say the words.
- No. - My coat.
Well, I ain't ever gonna run out on you, and that's a promise.
Well, I wanna run outta here, so, lady...
Hit the road, sport. Keep the tip.
You ain't getting other people's hats and coats no more neither.
Why'd you do that?
'Cause you're with me now.
I don't know anything about you.
I was raised on a farm in Mooresville, Indiana.
My mama died when I was three.
My daddy beat the hell outta me 'cause he didn't know no better way to raise me.
I like baseball, movies, good clothes, fast cars, whiskey and you.
What else you need to know?
Have a seat.
You been living here long?
Yeah.
Since yesterday.
Hey.
I got you something.
When I was a girl,
we went to live on the reservation in Flandreau...
'cause my daddy died.
In Flandreau, nothing ever happened.
And when I was 13, I went to live in Milwaukee with my Aunt Ines.
We had a lotta Indian friends,
and we went around to churches and put on plays.
And nothing exciting ever happened there, either.
So I haven't been anywhere or done anything except come to Chicago...
and try to make my way.
You're all packed.
Well, baby,
I'm gonna take you with me.
And you're gonna start a whole new exciting kinda life.
And what do you want?
Everything.
Right now.
Purvis.
Berman dropped the DeSoto at Sherone Apartments 20 minutes ago.
Men go in and out of an apartment rented to a Miss Vi Scott.
They carry heavy suitcases. One of them looks like Dillinger.
Where are your men?
In cars on Clarendon and Wilson Avenue.
Blocking vehicles? The alley?
Who has a line of sight on the DeSoto to you?
Are they aware that we are here? Any rapid movements?
No.
Carter,
you keep an eye on the DeSoto from there.
Barton, you're with me.
Yes?
I'm Special Agent Melvin Purvis, Miss Scott.
Are you here by yourself?
No. I'm here with my fiancé.
And what is your fiancé's name?
Leonard McHenry.
May we come in?
Well, please.
I'm perfectly safe, but come on in.
Something wrong?
You have identification?
Yeah, sure.
Honey, would you, uh, get my driver's license?
It's in my jacket pocket.
Sure.
I know you.
You're, uh...
You're Melvin Purvis. Right?
Yeah. I seen your picture.
And what do you do for a living, Leonard?
I travel in ladies' shoes.
Show him, honey.
Cute, huh?
Well, you enjoy the rest of your dinner, Mr. McHenry.
- Thanks. - Good night.
No one in or out. I'll get the others. You stay here.
You watch that door from right there.
Get the men from Sheridan.
Bureau of Investigation. What's your name?
You wanna know my name?
Come on.
Baum, you keep an eye on the alley.
Barton?
Barton.
Where is he?
They're headed east!
Who was in the blocking car?
That was us.
We heard gunfire so we... came here.
Who was it, Dillinger?
The man we let get away wasn't John Dillinger.
That was Baby Face Nelson.
- Get on the floor! - Now! Go!
Y'all get up against that wall.
- Go on, all of you. - [PIERPONT]: This is a stick-up! Up!
Put them up! Up!
Down on the floor, now! Down!
Put them up! Come on. Put them up!
This is a stick-up!
Let's go. Come on. Up!
Where I can see them, up!
Customers, stay calm. Don't move.
Hey! You! Up!
- Hands up! - Move! Empty it!
John Dillinger held up a bank for 74 thousand dollars...
while you failed to arrest Nelson.
Sir, I take full responsibility.
And I would like to make a request.
That we transfer men with special qualifications
to augment the staff here in Chicago.
There are some former Texas and Oklahoma lawmen...
currently with the Bureau in Dallas.
I thought you understood what I'm building.
A modern force of professional young men of the best sort.
I'm afraid our type cannot get the job done.
Excuse me, I cannot hear you.
Our type cannot get the job done.
I cannot hear you.
Our type cannot get the job done.
Without qualified help,
I would have to resign this appointment.
Otherwise, I am leading my men to slaughter.
Mr. Tolson will call you, Agent Purvis.
Did he say what he looked like?
Didn't say.
You gentlemen need any help?
Thank you, no.
- Shine? - Morning.
- How you doing? - I'm doing all right.
Agent Winstead?
- That's right. - It's a pleasure.
Welcome to Chicago. We have a lotta work to do here on Mr. Dillinger.
- Another time. - Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.
Have a nice day.
Put Johnny Patton down front on the other four tracks.
It's hot out, right?
Yes, Frank.
Ever since those pricks shot me, I can't get warm.
What?
Some people from Chicago over there.
Johnny.
What do you say we meet you in Tucson around the 25th?
- Okay. - All right.
I heard one today. Indiana paper,
"Wanted, John Dillinger, dead or dead".
I think we wore out the Midwest for a while.
What?
Come out to the Colonial tonight. It's our joint. Be my guest.
The best steaks in Miami.
You're not gonna take our picture, are you?
No pictures.
All right. We'll be there.
Thank you for taking me on this trip.
You going somewhere, doll? Am I?
- No. - Don't kid a kidder.
Then don't play me for a fool.
We both know I end up back checking coats at the Steuben Club,
one way or the other.
What does that mean?
You don't think past today or tomorrow. And eventually,
they will catch you or kill you...
and I don't wanna be there when that happens.
Who gave you a crystal ball?
I don't need one.
Ask Homer.
Ask Homer what?
And his goddamn joke, "dead or dead".
You ain't going nowhere, you hear me?
I'm gonna die an old man in your arms.
We're too good for 'em.
They ain't tough enough, smart enough or fast enough.
I hit any bank I want any time.
They gotta be at every bank all the time.
That's why we're on top of the world.
Ain't nobody lay a glove on us.
No.
I ain't going nowhere. Neither are you.
What do you got to say about that?
Hi, folks.
Afternoon. Got a reservation for a Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sullivan.
I can send up some sandwiches and beer if you like.
That'd be swell.
Some friends of mine should be here already,
a J.C. Davies and a Mr. Clark?
Out shopping, I believe.
I'll let them know you're in when they get back.
Okey-doke.
The elevator's right down that way.
Thank you very much.
You look like you could use some company.
How's about me and my friend Prince Albert come and pay you a visit?
Get on in here, both of you.
Johnny! Johnny!
Put some clothes on, miss.
What the hell happened, boys?
There was a fire in the hotel.
Firemen found our guns. They called the cops.
Where they taking you?
We're getting shanghaied to Ohio.
Where's Billie?
Your girl's been put on a bus back to Chicago.
We ain't holding her.
Right this way.
Well,
here's the man who killed Pretty Boy Floyd.
Damn good thing he was pretty, 'cause he sure wasn't Whiz Kid Floyd.
Tell me something, Mr. Purvis.
That fellow, the one who got killed at the Sherone Apartments,
the newspaper said you found him alive.
It's the eyes, ain't it?
They look at you right before they go.
And then they just drift away into nothing.
That'll keep you up nights.
And what keeps you up nights, Mr. Dillinger?
Coffee.
You act like a confident man, Mr. Purvis.
You got a few qualities.
Probably pretty good from a distance,
especially when you got the fellow outnumbered.
But up close, toe to toe,
when somebody's about to die right here, right now,
I'm used to that.
What about you?
Goodbye, Mr. Dillinger.
I'll see you down the road.
No, you will not.
The only way that you will leave a jail cell...
is when we take you out to execute you.
Well, we'll see about that.
You ought to get yourself another line of work, Melvin.
Hey, I was just kidding.
I believe I'm gonna let you boys keep me here a while.
We'd like that, Johnny, but don't get too comfortable.
They're moving you.
Where to?
Indiana.
Why?
I have absolutely nothing I wanna do in Indiana.
He's here.
Back up, fellas. Back up.
We'll take custody now. Take the manacles off.
Are you glad to see Indiana again?
About as glad as Indiana is to see me, I suppose.
Did you smuggle the guns into Indiana State Penitentiary
for the big break of September 26th?
Right now, you're too inquisitive, buddy.
Put your arm around Dillinger.
Hey, when was the last time you were in Mooresville?
Ten years ago.
I was a wild boy, and, well, I was foolish.
I held up a grocery store,
which I never should have done 'cause Mr. Morgan was a good man.
And they sentenced me to 10 years...
in the state penitentiary for a 50 dollar theft.
When I was in prison, I met a lotta good fellows.
So sure, yeah,
I helped set up the break at Michigan City. Why not?
I stick with my pals and my pals stick with me.
Johnny, how long does it take you to go through a bank?
Oh, about one minute, 40 seconds.
Flat.
Let's go.
Mr. Johnny, your lawyer's here.
You come highly recommended by Alvin Karpis.
At the arraignment,
they're gonna try and transfer me to the state pen.
What can you do for me?
What's on your mind?
The electric chair.
Your Honor, are we to have an arraignment in accord with the laws of this nation...
or is the State to be permitted to incite an atmosphere of prejudice?
The very air reeks with the bloody rancor of intolerant malice!
The clanging of shackles brings to our minds...
the dungeons of the czars,
not the flag-bedecked liberty of an American courtroom.
I request the court to direct that those shackles be removed forthwith.
This is a very dangerous man, Your Honor.
And I'm responsible for the safeguarding of this prisoner.
Are you a lawyer? What right do you have to address this court?
All right. Remove the shackles from the prisoner.
Your Honor, we would like to relocate the prisoner.
Only Indiana State Penitentiary in Michigan City...
can guarantee Dillinger will not escape.
- Sheriff Holley? - I concur, Your Honor.
Sheriff Holley, I think this is a very nice jail you have right here.
What makes you think there's something wrong with it?
There's nothing wrong with my jail.
It's the strongest jail in Indiana.
That's what I thought.
But of course, I don't want to embarrass Mrs. Holley.
I appreciate she's a woman and she's afraid of an escape.
Oh, no. I'm not afraid of an escape.
I can take care of John Dillinger or any other prisoner.
Okay.
Dillinger will stay here.
Thank you, Your Honor.
The defense will need four months to prepare itself.
It should take 10 days.
To go to trial in 10 days would be a legal lynching of this lad.
There's a law against lynching.
There's a law against murder!
Then observe the law part.
Or just stand Dillinger up against a wall...
and shoot him. Just shoot him.
Then there's no need to throw away the State's money on this mockery.
Calm down.
I apologize to the court.
Bob and I respect each other very much.
Watch out or he'll be putting his arm around you, too.
Trial starts in one month on March 12th.
Attaboy, counselor.
Open the gate.
Hey, Cahoon!
Come here a minute.
Come on, Sam.
You and me's going places.
Call Bryant.
Bryant?
Call Max.
I'll kill you if I have to. Don't think I won't.
Open up!
I'll plug him right here.
Open the gun safe. Go on. Open it up!