Dillinger and Capone (1995)

Director
Jon Purdy

Main cast
Martin Sheen; F. Murray Abraham; Jeffrey Combs; Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Genres
Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime

Description
In 1934, J. Edgar Hoover and the boys made headlines for mowing down John Dillinger in a hail of bullets outside Chicago's Biograph theater. But in fact, according to this Jon Purdy gangster thriller, the Feds iced Dillinger's brother. Fast-forward five years, when mobster kingpin Al Capone (F. Murray Abraham) gives the real Dillinger (Martin Sheen) an offer he can't refuse: rob millions from a secluded vault or watch his wife and child get whacked.


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