Dillinger (1945)

 Dillinger (1945)

John Dillinger begins his life of crime as a petty thief, meets his future gang in prison and eventually masterminds a series of daring robberies. 

Many conservative social and religious groups demanded that the film be withdrawn or banned outright because of what they considered its "brutal and sensational" subject matter. The Chicago Censorship Board banned the film from being shown in Chicago for two years. The film finally opened on May 30, 1947 at the Oriental Theatre in downtown Chicago and at the Biograph on the north side, the theatre Dillinger attended the night he was killed.