1945 - DILLINGER a film starring a real life bad guy

B studio, Monogram pictures put together this mostly fictional account of the life of John Dillinger the notorious 1930's gangster.  They hired an actor who was practically a gangster himself, Lawrence Tierney.

Lawrence Tierney was a real piece of work.  Arrested many times for assault and being drunk and disorderly,  he was a handful for most directors to work with.  Towards the end of his career he worked with Quentin Tarantino on Reservoir Dogs who didn't have a lot of good things to say about him. Watching this film is like watching a real train wreck of an actor in action.

 The film has a dream cast of bad guys, Edmund Lowe, Marc Lawrence, and Elisha Cook Jr.

 The film was written early in his career by Philip Yordan and the music score was by Dimitri Tiomkin also at the beginning of his career. It runs 70 minutes.