The studio was famous for its socially-realistic, urban, low-budget action pictures ; the play seemed like the perfect property for it, especially since the public was entranced by real-life criminals like John Dillinger ( whom Bogart resembled ) and Dutch Schultz.

In late July 1934, Special Agent Melvin Purvis, the Director of Operations in the Chicago office, received a tip on Dillinger's whereabouts which paid off when Dillinger was located, ambushed and killed by FBI agents outside the Biograph Theater.

These included that of Dillinger, Alvin Karpis, and Machine Gun Kelly, which led to the Bureau's powers being broadened and it was given its new name in 1935: the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The plot meanders around the globe to such far-flung locations as Las Vegas ( where a potentially deadly, secret U. S. government-developed mutated anthrax epidemic has been accidentally unleashed ); Atlantis ( where Howard, the talking porpoise, and his porpoise aides help Hagbard battle the Illuminati ); Chicago ( where someone resembling John Dillinger was killed many years ago ); and to the island of Fernando Pó ( the location of the next great Cold War standoff between Russia, China and the USA ).

John Herbert Dillinger, Jr. ( June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934 ) was an American bank robber in the Depression-era United States.

In 1933 – 34, seen in retrospect as the heyday of the Depression-era outlaw, Dillinger was the most notorious of all, standing out even among more violent criminals such as Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Bonnie and Clyde.

( Decades later, the first major book about ' 30s gangsters was titled The Dillinger Days.

After evading police in four states for almost a year, Dillinger was wounded and returned to his father's home to recover.

John Herbert Dillinger, Jr. was born on June 22, 1903, in the Oak Hill section of Indianapolis, Indiana, the younger of two children born to John Wilson Dillinger ( July 2, 1864 – November 3, 1943 ) and Mary Ellen " Mollie " Lancaster ( 1860 – 1907 ).

Matthias Dillinger was born in German-Prussian Gisingen, near Dillingen, Saarland.

In an interview with reporters, Dillinger said that he was firm in his discipline and believed in the adage " spare the rod and spoil the child ".

As a teenager, Dillinger was frequently in trouble with the law for fighting and petty theft ; he was also noted for his " bewildering personality " and bullying of smaller children.

Dillinger was convicted of assault and battery with intent to rob, and conspiracy to commit a felony.

En route to Mooresville to testify against Singleton Dillinger briefly escaped his captors but was apprehended within a few minutes.

Dillinger was paroled on May 10, 1933, after serving nine and a half years.

Sheriff Sarber was the gang's first police killing of an estimated 13 lawmen deaths by Dillinger gang members.

Dillinger was believed to have been associated with gangs who robbed dozens of banks and accumulated a total of more than $ 300, 000.

* After Dillinger was broken out of Lima

Upon leaving the bank, Dillinger and Hamilton were confronted by seven cops who had arrived while the robbery was in progress.

Dillinger was officially charged with Officer O ' Malley's murder although the identity of the actual killer was debatable, and it is in question whether Dillinger participated in the robbery at all.

Fouad EL-Mohandes is well known for his characters in movies in which he tried to make them as comic arabination of famous American movies, idols and characters. He played his most famous role as Mr X in two movies who is the most dangerous man in the world ( in The most dangerous man in the world and The return of the most dangerous man in the world ), also in his movies we find some characters of real criminals as John Dillinger ( referred to as Sayed Dillinger ), Billy the kid and Mosolini.

Taking up a job as a clerk, Dillinger found that, in a large metropolis like Chicago, he was able to lead an anonymous existence for a while.

As police began closing in again, the men left Chicago to hide out first in Florida ; later at the Gardner Hotel in El Paso, Texas, where a highly visible police presence dissuaded Dillinger from trying to cross the border at the Santa Fe Bridge in downtown El Paso to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico ; and finally in Tucson, Arizona.

After escaping Crown Point, Dillinger began living with his girlfriend Evelyn " Billie " Frechette.

The town's weekly newspaper, Northwest News, began operations in the summer of 1997 in the former Huntertown State Bank, site of a 1930s robbery by the John Dillinger gang.

Mathcore began with the mid -' 90s work of Converge, Botch and The Dillinger Escape Plan.

Weinman, Chris Pennie, Dimitri Minakakis and Adam Doll began The Dillinger Escape Plan in 1997.

The police had been put on high alert and suspected the Dillinger gang of involvement in the robbery of the Unity Trust And Savings Bank of $ 8, 700 the day before.

The governor compromised, and ordered that Dillinger would be extradited to the Lake County Jail in Crown Point for Officer O ' Malley's murder in the East Chicago bank robbery, while Pierpont, Makley and Clark were sent to Ohio to stand trial for Sheriff Sarber's murder.

After separating, Dillinger picked up Hamilton, who was recovering from the Mason City robbery.

The Dillinger robbery became one of the major events of Greencastle history.

On June 10, 1933, the infamous John Dillinger committed his first bank robbery, taking $ 10, 000 from the New Carlisle National Bank, which occupied the building which still stands at the southeast corner of Main Street and Jefferson Street ( state routes 235 and 571 ) in New Carlisle.

Although the details remain in some dispute, the escape is suspected to have been arranged and financed by members of Nelson's newly-formed gang, including Homer Van Meter, Tommy Carroll, Eddie Green, and John " Red " Hamilton, with the understanding that Dillinger would repay some part of the bribe money out of his share of the first robbery.

Dillinger and Hamilton both were shot and wounded in the robbery, where they made away with $ 52, 000.

For example, in the March 6, 1934 robbery of the Security National Bank & Trust Company in Sioux Falls, Nelson was enraged by the sound of the alarm, demanding to know who set the alarm off, setting him apart from Dillinger and Van Meter, who continued working to the alarm as if it hadn't gone off.

It was from these men that Dillinger learned the crime of bank robbery, and by 1933, with a parole for Dillinger, an escape plan was concocted.

He would know almost as much as they did about bank robbery Dillinger agreed, but insisted that James Jenkins be included in the break.

On November 16, one day after Dillinger and Frechette had escaped an attempted police ambush, the gang made the final details for the robbery of a bank in Racine, Wisconsin.

The gang's " kick in " robbery would later be used during the 1930s by Depression-era criminals such as John Dillinger and others.

* In his first bank robbery since escaping from jail and then raiding police stations for guns and bulletproof vests, John Dillinger and his gang robbed the Central National Bank in Greencastle, Indiana, taking $ 75, 000.

Initially, the FBI suffered some embarrassing foul-ups, in particular with Dillinger and his conspirators.

The plot is foiled when, with the help of a 50-foot-tall incarnation of the goddess Eris, the four members of the AMA are killed: Wilhelm is killed by the monstrous alien being Yog-Sothoth, Wolfgang is shot by John Dillinger, Winifred is drowned by porpoises, and Werner is trapped in a sinking car.

Dillinger had friends smuggle guns into their prison cells, with which they escaped, four days after Dillinger's capture.

Tucson celebrates the historic arrest with an annual " Dillinger Days " festival, the highlight of which is a reenactment.

Sam Cahoon, the janitor that Dillinger first took hostage in the jail, believed that Dillinger had carved the gun with a razor and some shelving in his cell.

Before leaving, Dillinger ran the wooden pistol along the bars of the cell in which the people were held and cracked that he had broken their escape proof jail with nothing but a wooden gun.

They came face to face with Billie, who alerted Dillinger to the police presence.

Dillinger fired through the apartment door upstairs at Cummings, then fled out of a back entrance with Frechette and Van Meter before back-up could arrive.

Dillinger and Van Meter then met up with Carroll.

Dillinger and Van Meter spent most of May living out of a red panel truck with a mattress in the back.

Dillinger and Van Meter reunited with Nelson a week later and went into hiding.

She was a Romanian immigrant threatened with deportation for " low moral character " and offered the federal agency information on Dillinger in exchange for their help in preventing her deportation.

Cumpănaş told them that Dillinger was spending his time with another prostitute, Polly Hamilton, and that she and the couple would be going to see a movie together on the following day.

Dillinger was with Polly Hamilton and Ana Cumpănaş.

Dillinger was struck three ( or four, according to some historians ) times, with two bullets entering the chest, one of them nicking his heart, and the fatal shot-which entered Dillinger through the back of his neck, severed his spinal cord and tore through his brain before exiting out the front of his head just under his right eye.