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Movie-A-Day #203: Public Enemies (2009).

July 22, 2011

The gunfight that killed the notorious John Dillinger on this date in 1934 quickly became one of the most defining moments of the Chicago gangland culture of the 1920s and 1930s. So of course it’s been recreated many times on screen, most recently in “Public Enemies” with Johnny Depp playing Dillinger. You’d think he would’ve learned Abe Lincoln’s lesson about hanging out at a theater…

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