Now nobody get nervous, you ain't got nothing to fear. You're being robbed by the John Dillinger Gang, that's the best there is!

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.