All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy.

A team of federal agents and officers from police forces outside Chicago was formed along with a very few Chicago police officers. However in this film it is Dillinger's girlfriend Polly in red not the Romanian informant Anna Sage (Louise Fletcher). Matthias Dillinger was born in German-Prussian Gisingen near Dillingen Saarland.

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 (June 22 1903 – July 22 1934) was an American bank robber in the Depression-era United States. Federal agents led by Melvin Purvis and Samuel P.