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Intro:
Based on author Bryan Burrough's ambitious tome 'Public Enemies:
America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43',
director Michael Mann (HEAT, LAST OF THE MOHICANS) has crafted a
sprawling historical crime drama that follows the efforts of top FBI
agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale – BATMAN BEGINS, AMERICAN
PSYCHO) in capturing notorious bank robber John Dillinger. A folk
hero to the American public thanks to his penchant for robbing the
banks that many people believed responsible for the Great
Depression, charming bandit Dillinger (Johnny Depp – PIRATES OF TEH
CARIBBEAN) was virtually unstoppable at the height of his criminal
career; no jail could hold him, and his exploits endeared him to the
common people while making headlines across the country. J. Edgar
Hoover's (Billy Crudup – WATCHMEN, ALMOST FAMOUS) FBI was just
coming into formation, and what better way for the ambitious lawman
to transform his fledgling Bureau of Investigation into a national
police force than to capture the gang that always gets away?
Determined to bust Dillinger and his crew, which also included
sociopathic Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham – DOGHOUSE, THIS IS
ENGLAND) and Alvin Karpis (Giovanni Ribisi – THE GIFT, SAVING
PRIVATE RYAN), Hoover christened Dillinger the country's very first
Public Enemy Number One, and unleashed Purvis to take them down by
whatever means necessary. But Purvis underestimated Dillinger's
ingenuity as a master criminal, and after embarking on a frantic
series of chases and shoot-outs, the dashing agent humbly surmised
that he was in over his head. Outwitted and outgunned, Purvis knew
that his only hope for busting Dillinger's gang was to baptize a
crew of Western ex-lawmen as official agents, and orchestrate a
series of betrayals so cunning that even America's criminal
mastermind wouldn't know what hit him. Marion Cotillard, Channing
Tatum, and Stephen Dorff co-star.
Description:
In the
action-thriller Public Enemies, acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann
directs Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Academy Award winner Marion
Cotillard in the story of legendary Depression-era outlaw John
Dillinger (Depp)--the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids
made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover's fledglign FBI
and its top agent, Melvin Purvis (Bale), and a folk hero to much of
the downtrodden public.
No one could stop Dillinger and his gang. No jail could hold him.
His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost
everyone--from his girlfriend Billie Frechette (Cotillard) to an
American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged
the country into Depression.
But while the adventures of Dillinger's gang--late including the
sociopath Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham) and Alvin Karpis
(Giovanni Ribisi)--thrilled many, Hoover (Billy Crudup) hit on the
idea of exploiting the outlaw's capture as a way to elevate his
Bureau of Investigation into the national police force that became
the FBI. He made Dillinger America's first Public Enemy Number One
and sent in Purvis, the dashing "Clark Gable of the FBI".
However, Dillinger and his gang outwitted and outgunned Purvis' men
in wild chases and shootouts. Only after importing a crew of Western
ex-lawmen (newly baptised as agents) and orchestrating epic
betrayals--from the infamous "Lady in Red" to the Chicago crime boss
Frank Nitti--were Purvis, the FBI and their new crew of gunfighters
able to close in on Dillinger.
Cast:
Christian Bale ... Melvin Purvis
Johnny Depp ... John Dillinger
James Russo ... Walter Dietrich
David Wenham ... Harry 'Pete' Pierpont
Christian Stolte ... Charles Makley
Jason Clarke ... John 'Red' Hamilton
John Judd ... Turnkey
Stephen Dorff ... Homer Van Meter
Michael Vieau ... Ed Shouse
John Kishline ... Guard Dainard
Wesley Walker ... Jim Leslie
John Scherp ... Earl Adams
Elena Kenney ... Viola Norris
William Nero Jr. ... Farm boy
Channing Tatum ... Pretty Boy Floyd
Number of discs: 2
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