Category: Crime
All Genres: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Release Year: 2009
Country:USA
Runtime: 104 minutes
Rating: 7.5/10
Languages: English

Director:

Michael Mann

Sound: Dolby Digital, SDDS, DTS

Writing by :

Ronan Bennett
Michael Mann
Ann Biderman

Produced by:

G. Mac Brown
Bryan H. Carroll
Gusmano Cesaretti
Kevin De La Noy
Robert De Niro
Michael Mann
Karl McMillan
Kevin Misher
Maria Norman
Jane Rosenthal

Music By:

Elliot Goldenthal

Cast:

James Russo - Walter Dietrich
David Wenham - Harry 'Pete' Pierpont
Christian Stolte - Charles Makley
Jason Clarke - John 'Red' Hamilton
Johnny Depp - John Dillinger
John Judd - Turnkey
Stephen Dorff - Homer Van Meter
Michael Vieau - Ed Shouse
John Kishline - Guard Dainard
Wesley Walker - Jim Leslie
John Scherp - Earl Adams
Elena Kenney - Viola Norris
William Nero Jr. - Farm boy
Channing Tatum - Pretty Boy Floyd
Christian Bale - Melvin Purvis
Rory Cochrane - Agent Carter Baum
Madison Dirks - Agent Warren Barton
Len Bajenski - Police Chief Fultz
Adam Clark - Sport
Carey Mulligan - Carol Slayman
Andrzej Krukowski - Oscar Lieboldt
John Michael Bolger - Martin Zarkovich
Branka Katic - Anna Sage
Peter Defaria - Grover Weyland
Jonathan Macchi - Teller
Jeff Shannon - Angry Cop
Michael Sassone - Farmer
Emilie de Ravin - Barbara Patzke
Brian Connelly - Office Chester Boyard
Ed Bruce - Senator Kenneth D. McKellar
Billy Crudup - J. Edgar Hoover
Geoffrey Cantor - Harry Suydam
Chandler Williams - Clyde Tolson
Robert B. Hollingsworth Jr. - Hoover Reporter #1
David Paul Innes - Hoover Reporter #2
Joe Carlson - Hoover Reporter #3
Ben Mac Brown - Hoover Reporter #4
Marion Cotillard - Billie Frechette
Giovanni Ribisi - Alvin Karpis
Diana Krall - Torch Singer
Duane Sharp - Doorman at the Gold Coast
Domenick Lombardozzi - Gilbert Catena
Bill Camp - Frank Nitti
John Ortiz - Phil D'Andrea
Richard Short - Agent Sam Cowley
Randy Ryan - Agent Julius Rice
Shawn Hatosy - Agent John Madala
Kurt Naebig - Agent William Rorer
John Hoogenakker - Agent Hugh Clegg
Adam Mucci - Agent Harold Reinecke
Rebecca Spence - Doris Rogers
Danni Simon - May Minczeles
Don Harvey - Customer at Steuben Club
Shanyn Leigh - Helen Gillis
Stephen Graham - Baby Face Nelson
Spencer Garrett - Tommy Carroll
Stephen Lang - Charles Winstead
Don Frye - Clarence Hurt
Matt Craven - Gerry Campbell
Laurence Mason - Porter at Union Station
Randy Steinmeyer - Cop Eyman
Kris Wolff - Deputy
Lili Taylor - Sheriff Lillian Holley
Donald G. Asher - Reporter #1
Andrew Steele - Reporter #2
Philip M. Potempa - Reporter #3
Brian McConkey - Photographer
Alan Wilder - Robert Estill
David Warshofsky - Warden Baker
Peter Gerety - Louis Piquett
Michael Bentt - Herbert Youngblood
John Lister - Judge Murray
Jim Carrane - Sam Cahoon (as Jimmy Carrane)
Joseph Mazurk - Guard Bryant
John Fenner Mays - Deputy Blunk
Rick Uecker - Edward Saager
Craig Spidle - Reporter (as Craig A. Spidle)
Jason T. Arnold - Other Jr. G-Man #1
Andrew Blair - Other Jr. G-Man #2
Mark Vallarta - Harry Berg
Daniel Maldonado - Jacob Solomon
Sean Rosales - Joe Pawlowski
Stephen Spencer - Emil Wanatka
Patrick Zielinski - Doctor
Gareth Saxe - Agent Ray Suran
Guy Van Swearingen - Agent Ralph Brown
Jeff Still - James Probasco
Lance Baker - Freddie Barker
Steve Key - Doc Barker
Leelee Sobieski - Polly Hamilton
David Carde - Captain O'Neill
Gerald Goff - Special Agent #1
Aaron Roman Weiner - Special Agent
Keith Kupferer - Agent Sopsic
Turk Muller - Other East Chicago Cop #1
Tim Grimm - Other East Chicago Cop #2
Martie Sanders - Irene the Ticket Taker
Robyn Scott - Ella Natasky
David John Adamson - Bank President #3
Mike Bach - Prisoner
Britt Barrett - Blonde Floozy
Tommy Bartlett - Gold Coast Patron
Matthew Bender - Disturbed Club Patron
Suzy Brack - Biograph Theater Couple
Dale Caba - Biograph Theatre Patron
Ross Clifton - Biograph Patron
Eric Cooper - Prisoner
James Currie - Press
Shaun Daley - FBI Agent In Alley Way
Joe DeVito - Convict
Shannon Edwards - Banker on Union Station Platform / Biograph Theatre Patron
Naomi Heilmann - Theatre goer
J. Alec Holmes - Theater Patron
Nicole James - Chicago Pedestrian
Jimmy Johnson - Saxophonist
Thomas Kosik - Worker at gas station
Don Kress - Convict
Jordan Lawson - Prisoner
Tom Lodewyck - Committee Member
Angelina Lyubomirova - Coat check girl
Chad Manuel - Upscale Gentleman
Greg McAleer - Biograph Theater Couple
Christopher Midkiff - Prisoner
John Otto - Saxophonist
Steven James Price - Steuben Club Coat Check Patron
Joel Rogers - Sheriff Guard
Ashley Simone - Dancer
Monica Sly - Red's Girl
Quinn Smith - Agent
André Sogliuzzo - Movie Theater Announcement (voice)
Dion Strowhorn Sr. - Prisoner
Bill Stoneking - Pipe Smoking Bookie
Chris D. Thomas - Biograph Theater Goer
John Thurner - Biograph Theater Patron
Claire Tuft - Billie's Neighbor
Carlos Villalobos - Hoover FBI Agent
Lisa Wolf - Restaurant Patron
Robert A. Young - Bodyguard

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Plot: The film opens in 1933 as John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) is brought to the Indiana State Prison by his partner John "Red" Hamilton (Jason Clarke), under the disguise of a prisoner drop. Dillinger and Hamilton overpower several guards and free members of their gang including Charles Makley (Christian Stolte) and Harry Pierpont (David Wenham). The jailbreak goes off without a hitch, until gang member Ed Shouse (Michael Vieau) beats a guard to death. A shootout ensues as the gang makes its getaway. Dillinger's friend and mentor Walter Dietrich (James Russo) is killed, and a furious Dillinger kicks Shouse out of the car. The rest of the gang retreats to a farm house hideout, where crooked East Chicago, Indiana cop Martin Zarkovich (John Michael Bolger) convinces them to hide out in Chicago, where they can be sheltered by the local Mafia.

In East Liverpool, Ohio, Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) and several other FBI agents are running down Pretty Boy Floyd (Channing Tatum). Purvis kills Floyd and is promoted by J. Edgar Hoover (Billy Crudup), who is struggling to expand his Bureau into a national police agency, to lead the hunt for John Dillinger, declaring the first national "War on Crime."

In between a series of bank robberies, including a violent one at the First National Bank in East Chicago, Indiana, where Dillinger kills an East Chicago cop, Dillinger meets Billie Frechette (Marion Cotillard), his love interest, at a restaurant, and proceeds to woo her by buying her a fur coat. Frechette falls for Dillinger even after he tells her who he is, and the two quickly become inseparable.

Melvin Purvis leads a failed ambush at a hotel where he believes Dillinger is staying. An agent is shot and killed by the occupant. After the man escapes, Purvis realizes the killer wasn't Dillinger but Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham). After this incident, Purvis requests Hoover to bring in professional lawmen who know how to catch criminals dead or alive, including Texas "cowboy" Charles Winstead (Stephen Lang).

Police finally find Dillinger and arrest him and his gang in Tucson. Purvis arrives that evening and briefly talks with Dillinger; Dillinger tries to size Purvis up and manages to unnerve him with his talk about the agent killed by Nelson. Dillinger is extradited back to the Lake County Jail in Crown Point, Indiana, where he is locked up by Sherriff Lillian Holley (Lili Taylor) pending trial. Dillinger and a few inmates carve a fake wooden gun and use it to escape the jail in Sherriff Holley's Police Cruiser. Dillinger is unable to see Frechette, who is under tight surveillance. Dillinger learns that Frank Nitti's (Bill Camp) Chicago Outfit associates are now unwilling to help him; Dillinger's crimes are motivating the U.S. government to begin prosecuting interstate crime, which imperils Nitti's lucrative bookmaking racket.

Later, Dillinger meets fellow bank robber Tommy Carroll (Spencer Garrett) in a movie theater; with him is Ed Shouse, who wants to rejoin the gang. Carroll goads Dillinger into a bank robbery job in Sioux Falls, promising a huge score. Even though Baby Face Nelson is involved, whom he doesn't like, Dillinger agrees. A shootout (triggered by Nelson shooting a cop outside the bank) occurs in which Dillinger is shot in the arm, and Carroll is shot and left for dead. They retreat to Nelson's wilderness hideout in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin, where Dillinger's wounds are treated; the gang is disappointed to find that their haul is only a fraction of what they expected. Dillinger expresses hope he can free the rest of his gang still in prison, including Pierpont and Makley, but Red convinces him this is unlikely to happen.

Purvis and his men apprehend Carroll (who is still alive) and torture him to find the rest of the gang's location. They arrive at Little Bohemia and Purvis organizes another failed ambush, in which several civilians are killed in the cross-fire. Dillinger and Red escape separately from Nelson and the rest of the gang. Agents Winstead and Hurt (Don Frye) pursue Dillinger and Hamilton through the woods on foot, engaging them in a running gun battle in which Red is shot and fatally wounded. Trying to escape along the road, Nelson, Shouse and Homer Van Meter (Stephen Dorff) hijack an FBI car, killing several agents in the process, including Purvis's partner Carter Baum (Rory Cochrane). After a car chase, Purvis and his men kill Nelson and the rest of the gang. Further down the road, Dillinger and Hamilton steal a farmer's car and make good their escape; Hamilton dies later that night and Dillinger buries his body, covering it in lye.

Dillinger manages to meet Frechette, telling her he plans to do one last job that will pay enough for them to escape together. However, Dillinger drops her off at a hotel he thinks is safe and helplessly watches as she is captured by the FBI. An interrogator, the brutish Agent Harold Reinecke (Adam Mucci) viciously beats Frechette to learn Dillinger's whereabouts, but she refuses to talk; Purvis and Winstead arrive and angrily break up the abusive interrogation. Meanwhile, Dillinger is meeting with Alvin Karpis (Giovanni Ribisi), who tries to recruit a disinterested Dillinger in a train robbery with his associates, the Barker Gang. Dillinger receives a note from Billie through his lawyer, Louis Piquet (Peter Gerety), telling him not to try and break her out of jail.

Through crooked cop Zarkovich, Purvis enlists the help of a madam and Dillinger acquaintance Anna Sage (Branka Katic), threatening her with deportation if she is not cooperative. She agrees to set up Dillinger, who is hiding with Sage.

That night Dillinger and Sage see a Clark Gable movie called Manhattan Melodrama at the Biograph Theater. When the movie is over, Dillinger and the women leave as Purvis moves in. Dillinger spots the police (specifically Reinecke, the man who beat up Dillinger's gal) and is shot several times before he can draw his gun against the cop who harmed Frechette. Agent Winstead, who fired the fatal shot, listens to Dillinger's last words.

Later, Winstead meets Frechette in prison. He tells her that Dillinger's dying words were "Tell Billie for me, 'Bye bye Blackbird.'" The closing text reveals that Melvin Purvis quit the FBI shortly afterwards and died by his own hand in 1960, and that Billie lived out of the rest of her life in Wisconsin following her release in 1936

Goofs:

• Anachronisms: In the main trailer for the film, the grill of the Dillinger getaway car is that of a 1936 Chevrolet. Dillinger died in a gun battle in 1934. Obviously, the '36 models of Chevrolet were not in production until late 1935.
• Anachronisms: Milwaukee streetcars were in orange and cream colors, not green as seen in the film.
• Continuity: In the scene where John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) is getting ready to leave for the Biograph Theatre, Dillinger checks his pocket watch. The time on the watch says 5:00. After a cut to a closer shot about a second later his watch says 6:30.
• Factual errors: In the film, Baby Face Nelson was killed in a shootout with agents in Wisconsin after the robbery of the Security National Bank at Sioux Falls, South Dakota. In fact, he was killed due to injury's suffered in a shootout with FBI agents in "The Battle Of Barrington" in a northwest suburb of Chicago on November 27, 1934.
• Factual errors: In the opening sequence, Walter Dietrich is portrayed being killed in the Michigan City breakout on September 26, 1933. Dietrich was actually captured on January 6, 1934, and returned to the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City. Massive bloodshed is shown in the Michigan City sequence, when in fact only one man, a clerk, was wounded.
• Anachronisms: In the scene in which Baby Face Nelson is drunk at the bar, he asks the other people there if they want to hear his James Cagney impersonations, saying Cagney's famous line from "Angels with Dirty Faces": "Whaddya hear, whaddya say." However, the events of "Public Enemies" took place in the early 1930s, and "Angels with Dirty Faces" was not released until 1938.
• Factual errors: In the Chicago police station they were listening to a Cubs game. The radio announcer could be heard mentioning a Yankee player. The Cubs didn't play the Yankees then - on July 22 1934 they were playing the Philadelphia Phillies.
• Continuity: When John Dillinger escapes from the jail the second time and he is driving the sheriff's car he is sitting at a red light. To his right there are 3 armed military soldiers. In the following bird's eye view it shows no one standing there. Finally, when the shot returns to Dillinger the 3 soldiers are still standing there.
• Factual errors: In the scene where John Dillinger is in the police station with officers listening to a baseball game on the radio, the game is the Chicago Cubs vs. NY Yankees. Since those teams only played in the World Series in late Sep to early Oct 1932 and Dillinger was in prison from 1924 until being paroled in May 1933, there is no way it could be the Cubs vs. Yankees on the radio. There was no interleague play back then except for the World Series and they never broadcast spring training games on the radio way back then.
• Factual errors: In the opening sequence, Dillinger appears at the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City and helps his pals in the escape. Dillinger was actually in the Montgomery County Jail in Dayton, Ohio, the day the escape occurred and transferred to Lima the following day.
• Revealing mistakes: In some close-up shots of his hands, Johnny Depp's tattoos on his fingers are visible.
• Anachronisms: Dillinger turns on an early Zenith table top radio and the voice on the radio is immediately heard. Back in the 1930s, AM radios took five or six seconds to warm up when turned on before a voice or music could be heard.
• Factual errors: Pretty Boy Floyd, killed in the beginning of the movie by Purvis, was actually killed on October 22, 1934, exactly 3 months after Dillinger died.
• Anachronisms: Filtered cigarettes were not around in the 1930s.
• Anachronisms: The movie theater is showing a post-1934 "Looney Tunes" short (Porky Pig's on the title card and his first cartoon, I Haven't Got a Hat (1935), wasn't released until after Dillinger's death in 1935).
• Factual errors: In the film, Dillinger shown being wounded during the gang's holdup of the Security National Bank of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on March 6, 1934. In reality, he received a shoulder wound exactly one week later during the First National Bank of Mason City heist.
• Factual errors: Dillinger gang member John Hamilton, referred to as "Three Finger Jack" by the authorities, was missing two fingers on his right hand, and then lost yet a third finger of the same hand during the East Chicago bank job in January of '34. CGI wasn't employed for this detail in the film. Thus, the actor playing Hamilton has all of his digits.
• Factual errors: At the Biograph, Purvis' signal for his men to move in was to light his cigar. In typical Purvis fashion, he bungled the signal when his hand shook uncontrollably and he couldn't light it. The men still recognized the sign and moved in and got their prey. In the film, Purvis lights up the cigar cool as a cucumber.
• Anachronisms: When Purvis is in the car outside Billie's apartment looking at the transcription of the phone call between Billie and Dillinger, the transcript is in the Times New Roman font and looks like a computer printout, rather than a typewritten page as it should have been in the 1930s.
• Factual errors: Alvin Karpis is shown in the film recommending attorney Louis Piquett to Dillinger while in a nightclub. Crown Point trusty Sam Cahoon passed one of Piquett's business cards to Dillinger while the famed outlaw was being jailed at Crown Point. The card getting into Cahoon's hands first was arranged by the East Chicago mob.
• Revealing mistakes: A number of scenes depict newsreel cameramen operating hand cranked 'pancake' Akeley motion picture cameras that would have been used for recording silent film footage only. The actors are cranking these cameras way slower than would have been normal in such 'news' situations and would only have been cranked in this fashion to record high-speed, fast-paced special effects footage.
• Anachronisms: The steam engine used in the film was Milwaukee road 261. This locomotive used in the film was manufactured in 1944 by American Locomotive Works a decade after Dillinger's time.
• Factual errors: Early in the film, soon after the Racine robbery, November 20, 1933, a radio announcer is heard referring to Dillinger as Public Enemy No. 1. Dillinger wasn't named Public Enemy No. 1 until June 22, 1934, his 31st birthday.
• Factual errors: In the film, the three workers that come out of Little Bohemia Lodge get into a 1932 Chevy 4-door. It actually should be a 1933 Chevy coupe. The car the gang used for the Racine robbery in the film (with the blonde hostage) was a 1935 Buick 90. It should actually be a 1933 Buick 90.
• Factual errors: Dillinger is seen in the film opening his pocket watch, looking at Billie Frechette's photo inside, then closing the watch and bringing it with him to the Biograph. The watch actually contained a photograph of Polly Hamilton.
• Factual errors: In the Crown Point jailbreak sequence, Dillinger is seen entering the gun safe and taking a .45, a Thompson submachine gun, and a BAR, Browning Automatic Rifle. Dillinger actually left the jail with a .45 and two Thompsons, one for him and one for Herbert Youngblood, the accused murderer at the jail who escaped with Dillinger.
• Continuity: During Dillinger's phone conversation to Frechette after his second escape, he ends with "I love you." In a following scene, the transcript of that conversation shows him ending with "I love you baby. I gotta go."
• Revealing mistakes: In many Johnny Depp close-ups, you can see, on the left earlobe, his multiple piercings, which no 1933 American criminal would have had.
• Revealing mistakes: In the street scenes in which streetcar tracks are present, there are no suspended overhead wires. The overhead provided electricity to power the cars.
• Anachronisms: The steam locomotive used in the film is ex-Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific RR ("Milwaukee Road") #261. This is a modern steam locomotive which was built in June, 1944. Thus, it would not have existed at the time of the events depicted in "Public Enemies."
• Factual errors: In the film, J. Edgar Hoover is shown in front of a Senate subcommittee being excoriated for the Bureau's performance. The incident takes place sometime between the 1933 start of the film and Dillinger's death; in reality, the subcommittee hearing in which Senator McKellar publicly lashed out at Hoover didn't occur until 1936, two years after Dillinger's death.
• Anachronisms: A modern day electrical transformer can be seen on a telephone pole in the reflection of the window of the hotel in Tucson, Arizona.
• Anachronisms: While at the race track, the characters sit on molded green plastic seats which did not exist in the 1930s.
• Anachronisms: Throughout the movie many buildings are seen with double paned tempered glass and aluminum window frames. Most notably the FBI planning meeting across the street from the Biograph takes place in front of a large storefront with two large panes forming a corner joint with no framing. All windows of the period were single pane.
• Anachronisms: When John goes to the movie theater a Porky Pig cartoon is on. Looney Tunes brought Porky to the screens for the first time in 1935.
• Continuity: In the airplane scene, looking out of the window from the interior shot it seems that the plane is ascending. When we see the exterior shot of the plane it is descending.
• Continuity: When Billie is preparing to leave the apartment to meet Johnny in the alley so they can leave town, her beaded necklace is hanging outside of her sweater. The next shot of Billis is as she leaves the apartment, and the necklace is tucked inside her sweater.
• Revealing mistakes: When Purvis is reviewing the transcript of Billie's phone conversation with Dillinger, the typed version doesn't match what she says on screen.
• Revealing mistakes: When driving to the Little Bohemia Lodge, we are shown snow on the ground. Later that evening, we hear crickets outside.
• Anachronisms: The bar at Little Bohemia where Baby Face Nelson does his James Cagney impression didn't exist in April of 1934. It was added on to the lodge in 1936.
• Continuity: When Billie and John start dancing, she has a hand on his right shoulder, in the next shot she instantly has a hand on his left instead, where it remains for the rest of the dance.
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): During the interrogation scene Marion Cotillard reverts to using a French accent, despite the fact that she plays an American. Though her character, like the real-life Evelyn Frechette, is of partially French parentage, neither she nor either of her parents had ever lived in France at any point and the stress couldn't cause her to revert to a French accent, since there's no chance she'd ever spoken with one.
• Anachronisms: Some shots (e.g. the Hotel Congress scenes) clearly show a popcorn (sprayed) ceiling in the hallway; however, popcorn ceilings were not developed or widely used until the 1950s.
• Crew or equipment visible: Towards the end of the movie, when the camera is zooming out of the city scene (where Dillinger body lies) a boom lift can be seen.
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the final scenes of the film Ana is wearing an orange top and white skirt. Although commonly credited in real life as having worn a red dress, in actuality Ana did wear orange on the night of Dillinger's death. The lights from the theater made her attire appear red, which gave her the nickname "lady in red".
• Anachronisms: Just to the left of the sally port of the prison at the beginning, modern day electrical boxes can be seen on the ground.
• Anachronisms: The race track has a synthetic Cushion Track surface which wasn't invented until the 1980s. The race track scene was filmed at Santa Anita Park in California.
• Factual errors: Dillinger arrived at Midway Airport, Chicago, at six p.m. January 30, 1934, after a grueling plane trip that started from Tucson. In the film, it's raining quite heavily upon his arrival at Midway. There was no precipitation at all that evening in Chicago. This is confirmed by the old newsreels.
• Anachronisms: During the chase after Little Bohemia, Homer asks Nelson where he got the car from, and he says he had gotten it from a "fed". The Federal Bureau of Investigations was created in 1935, after Dillinger's death, and it was just the Bureau of Investigations before that, so there is no reason anyone would call its agents "feds".
• Continuity: When Dillinger woos Billie at the cloakroom, he holds a red coat for her. She accepts and they leave. Next scene they enter his apartment, and her coat is black.
• Anachronisms: While discussing a plan for a train heist, in the background is a Union Pacific locomotive number 844. This locomotive was not built and delivered to the Union Pacific until December 1944, almost 10 years after Dillinger's death.
• Anachronisms: Telephone numbers in 2L-5N format such as ST2-XXXX and ED4-XXXX shown on the line tags were not in use in Chicago until around 1948. Correct format for 1930's was STA XXXX or EDG XXXX.
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The Billie Holiday songs heard on the radio were not recorded until the late thirties, long after Dillinger's death (she had recorded only two songs before the time of the film, Your Mother's Son-in-law and Riffin' the Scotch, neither of which are heard in it). However, just because the songs weren't recorded before Dillinger's death doesn't mean she wasn't singing them. Due to prejudice at the time, black singers were not allowed to record the best songs but (as can be seen from the 1935 recording of a live performance at the Apollo theater) she was singing Gershwin's The Man I Love in 1935. It was not unusual for live performances to be carried by radio, but not all were recorded. The songs heard in this movie were popularized at the end of the 1920s and Billie Holiday was singing throughout the 1930s. There's no reason to think she would not have sung such popular songs of the day.
• Factual errors: There's no explanation for Agent Harold Reinecke's bizarre behavior at the Biograph as depicted in the film, especially considering he wasn't actually present among the 20-plus agents/cops waiting outside the theater for Dillinger that night.
• Factual errors: In opening scene at prison, the sally port inside door is opened before the outside gate is closed. This is never done as it defeats the purpose of a sally port. Also, when the alarm is sounded, the outside gate remains open - procedure would dictate the gates be immediately "frozen" locked.
• Factual errors: In the scene where Dillenger escapes from the Indiana prison the soldiers that are guarding the prison are wearing the shoulder insignia (Gold Cross on Black Backgound) of the 33d Infantry Division, Illinois Army National Guard.
• Anachronisms: In the first bank robbery, a noticeable FDIC sign is present. This would be correct for the FDIC was introduced in 1933, hence why Dillinger says to the citizen, "I'm not here for your money, I'm here for the bank's, put it away." The FDIC was enacted in 1933 but did not take effect until 1934.
• Continuity: Before the beginning of the gun battle at the Little Bohemia lodge, Melvin Purvis is seen armed with a Thompson Sub-Machine Gun with a 50-round drum. When he opens fire on the innocent men in the car, the weapon is still loaded with the drum. However, when the gangsters start shooting back from the lodge, Purvis is seen ejecting a 20-round stick clip before reloading.
• Anachronisms: A modern Citroen can be seen parked in the background of one scene.
• Factual errors: The film depicts Dillinger and Frechette arriving in Tucson and checking in at the Congress Hotel and then later being arrested in their room while Billie is in the tub (Marion Cotillard appears to be wearing a body suit). Gang members Charles Makley and Russell Clark had actually rented the room at the hotel, then were forced to leave due to a fire. The pair rented a house on North Second Street, the house at which Dillinger and Frechette were subsequently arrested at.
• Anachronisms: As Dillinger and his associates leave the red train car, the car number seen on the outside of the car is in the Helvetica font, which was not created until 1957.
• Anachronisms: The radio broadcast says the USSR was fully accepted into the League of Nations. However, that didn't really happen until 1934.
• Revealing mistakes: In close up shots of Channing Tatum lying in the orchard, the lace front of his wig and what appears to be the glue used to secure it, are clearly visible.
• Factual errors: The film portrays Dillinger driving away from the Crown Point jail in Sheriff Holley's Ford V8. Deputy Sheriff Ernest Blunk was the actual driver in the escape. Dillinger got behind the wheel only after Blunk and Saager were set free outside of Peotone, Illinois.
• Factual errors: In the film, Melvin Purvis kills Pretty Boy Floyd after chasing him for a while through woods and an orchard. In real life, Floyd was killed outside of a farmhouse after exiting a car, and not by Melvin Purvis.
• Factual errors: The Thompson submachine gun used by Johnny Depp in the opening prison break was a M1928 (as seen later by the smaller diameter recoil spring as the weapon is field stripped) with a 30 round stick magazine. 30 round stick magazines were not available until the middle of WWII with the introduction of the M1 Thompson. The Thompsons of the time, M1921 & M1928, would have came with either 20 round stick magazines and/or 50 & 100 round drum magazines. This mistake is repeated throughout the movie.
• Factual errors: John Dillinger was left handed, however, in the movie he is shown right handed - including usage of guns.
• Factual errors: In the film, Dillinger explains that he had been imprisoned because he robbed a grocery store. Actually, he went to jail for assaulting an old man (with a friend's help). Dillinger's father urged him to tell the truth and throw himself on the mercy of the court, hoping he would get a light sentence. The judge instead wanted to make an example of JD and sent him up for several years' imprisonment.
• Errors in geography: That the location of the horse race track is actually in California (not Hialeah in Miami) is indicated by the tall palm trees in the background, which are of the genus Washingtonia. Though sometimes planted in Florida, Washingtonia is native to the Mojave desert and the western Sonora desert of California and southwest Arizona. The tall palm typically planted in southern Florida is Roystonea regia, the Cuban royal palm. The conspicuous difference is that Washingtonia has palmate (fan) leaves, while Roystonea has pinnate leaves (like a comb, or fish bones).
• Anachronisms: When Dillinger is in the police station, the baseball game on the radio is between the Chicago Cubs and the New York Yankees. The two teams did not play any games that year, 1934.
• Anachronisms: When Agent Charles Winstead leans over to hear Dillinger's last words, the contact lens on his right eye is visible. Contact lenses weren't widely available until the 1950s.
• Factual errors: Outside the Biograph, the real Dillinger pulled a gun and tried to get away after he had recognized Special Agent Purvis standing aside. Three agents opened fire, 5 shots were fired, out of which three hit the gangster. Bystanders were injured by bullets and debris. In the movie, Dillinger strolls away from the theater with the two women and is being shot in the head from behind

Trivia:

• As a result of the writers' strike, director Michael Mann was able to cast Johnny Depp and Marion Cotillard once their respective projects had been postponed. Depp was preparing to film Shantaram (2011) with Mira Nair while Cotillard was rehearsing for Rob Marshall's musical, Nine (2009).
• Leonardo DiCaprio was initially attached to star in a leading role when this project was put into development in 2004.
• In the trailer Johnny Depp says to one of the bank customers, "We're here for the bank's money, not your money." This line was in a previous Michael Mann film. It was said by Robert De Niro in Heat (1995). In the finished film, this line is reversed to "We're not here for your money, we're here for the bank's."
• This is the third time Johnny Depp and James Russo work together on a film. They both appeared in Donnie Brasco (1997) and The Ninth Gate (1999).
• The gunfight at the lodge in the woods was filmed at the Little Bohemia Lodge in Manitowish Waters, WI which is the actual location where the gunfight between Dillinger and the FBI took place in 1934. In fact, shell casings from the 1934 gunfight can still be found in the woods surrounding the lodge.
• John Dillinger was actually left-handed. The gun holding by Johnny Depp is backwards.
• Channing Tatum (Pretty Boy Floyd), Billy Crudup (J. Edgar Hoover), David Wenham (Harry Pierpont) and Christian Stolte (Charles Makley) are the only actors in the film playing characters their own age. All of the other actors in the film play characters much younger than themselves. Melvin Purvis was 28 years old during the events in the film and Christian Bale was 35 during the shoot. John Dillinger was 31 at the time of his death, while Johnny Depp is 45 in the film. 35-year-old Stephen Graham is playing a 25-year-old Baby Face Nelson, Stephen Dorff, also 35, plays a 27-year-old Homer Van Meter, and Giovanni Ribisi, 34, plays 27-year-old Alvin Karpis.
• Not only was the line, "we're here for the bank's money, not yours" used in a previous Michael Mann film, but an almost identical phrase was heard in Arthur Penn's classic, Bonnie and Clyde (1967). In the latter, Clyde, upon seeing a pile of cash at a teller's window, asks the customer if that's his money or the bank's.
• The portrayal of the death of gangster George "Baby Face" Nelson in this film is completely fictionalized. Nelson died in bed having been mortally wounded in a shootout with federal agents months after the death of John Dillinger.
• When Dillinger's body was lying in the street outside the Biograph theater, many by-standers dipped handkerchiefs in his blood to keep as a souvenir.
• While filming on location in Oshkosh, WI a boy aged 11 told Johnny Depp he loved his fedora hat and would like to have one like it. Depp told the boy he would see what he could do about that. After filming finished, Depp sent the boy the hat in the mail.
• Contains a spoiler to the Clark Gable movie Manhattan Melodrama (1934).
• Former Ethiopian Emperor and Rastafari Messiah Haile Selassie appears in an uncredited role in a newsreel.
• In the scene where "Baby Face" Nelson kills FBI Agent Carter Baum, Nelson really did say "I know you sons of bitches wear vests, so I'm gonna hit you high and low!" Also, the gun Nelson uses in that scene, a .45 Automatic modified into a mini-machine gun, was something Nelson actually used (as did Homer Van Meter). It was made especially for Nelson by a gunsmith in San Antonio, Texas.
• Although Billie Frenchette was never given "third degree" interrogation by the FBI as shown in the movie, the FBI agents did in fact perform similar tactics on Helen Nelson (the wife of "Baby Face" Nelson), Alvin Karpis, and an Dillinger associate in Chicago named James Probasco. In the instance of Probasco, he ended up falling to his death from a upper-floor window. Offically, it is believed he committed suicide in order to avoid further interrogation. However, some historians believe that the FBI agents interrogating Probasco attempted to make him talk by hanging him out of a window and that the agents lost their grip on Probasco.
• Just before John Dillinger goes to the movies the night he is killed, when John is washing and shaving, the camera pans across a table where we see his pocket watch, gun, glasses, and a money belt. According to Anna Sage (aka "The Woman In Red"), Dillinger was wearing a money belt with $3,000 inside. However, when Dillinger was killed, the money belt was nowhere to be found. Historians have speculated that Sgt. Martin Zarkovich, who was a part of Purvis's posse at the theater, stole the money.
• At one point, Alvin Karpis is seen planning a federal reserve train robbery with John Dillinger. In real life, the robbery was set up by an underworld associate of Dillinger, Karpis, and "Baby Face" Nelson named William Murray. Interestingly, Murray had set up the exact same robbery back in 1925 with the Newton Brothers (as seen in the film "The Newton Boys"). Although Dillinger was killed before he could take part in the robbery, Alvin Karpis did pull it off on November 7th, 1935.
• John Dillinger was shot to death by FBI agents on the night of July 22, 1934 while exiting Chicago's Biograph Theater, where he had attended a screening of 'Manhattan Melodrama.' While the Biograph Theater was still operating at the time of the production of 'Public Enemies,' the interior had been converted into a number of smaller venues, and no longer resembled the Depression-era movie palace it had been at the time of Dillinger's death. Production scouts for 'Public Enemies' found that the Paramount Theatre in nearby Aurora, Illinois resembled the Biograph Theater of 1934 enough to double as that venue. For that reason, the interiors for two scenes were filmed there: The scene in which John Dillinger and his cohorts attend a movie and are alarmed to see themselves and their photographs featured during a newsreel, and the scene taking place immediately prior to Dillinger's death. The exterior of the Biograph Theater during the latter scene, however, depicts that actual historic venue, 'dressed' to appear as it did in 1934.
• Dillinger's quote "we're here for the bank's money, not yours" is based on a real statement he made during the course of a bank robbery in Greencastle, Indiana. Clyde Barrow of Bonnie and Clyde would later use a similar quote in one of his gang's robberies, as he reportedly idolized Dillinger.
• Pretty Boy Floyd was killed after Dillinger, not before, as depicted in the film. He was shot and killed on October 22nd, 1934. Three months to the day after Dillinger.
• It's true that Dillinger enjoyed taking photographs of police officers when the opportunity presented itself, and even late in his career he would often attend Cubs games and frequent bars in Chicago, but he probably didn't enter the offices of the Dillinger Squad, as depicted in the film. Dillinger also tended to brag about his exploits. As with many other events in his life, he would have surely related such a fantastic thing to his family, his lawyer, or his lawyer's investigator, Art O'Leary, a man Dillinger often confided in. However, according to Burrough's book, he did enter the same building as the Chicago police department on a few occasions, and he did accompany Polly Hamilton into the building to get her waitress's license.
• After his embarrassment before the Senate Appropriations Comitte, J. Edgar Hoover is telling his assistant to release a press statement through Walter Winchell to discredit the senator who humiliated Hoover. Walter Winchell was famous radio show host and New York news columnist who was friends with Hoover. Winchell also hung around with famous New York gangsters like "Lucky" Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and Frank Costello.
• In the movie, John Dillinger and other bank robbers are seen having friendly relations with the Chicago Mafia. Specifically with Phillip D'Andrea, a top lieutenant in the Al Capone mob. In real life, Al Capone was said to admire bank robbers and would often allow bandits safe haven in Chicago under the mob's protection. However, as also shown in the movie, after Frank Nitti took over the mob following Al Capone's conviction for tax evasion, he cut off such resources to outlaws like Dillinger, "Baby Face" Nelson, and Alvin Karpis because of the "heat" that was being brought down on the mobs because of the FBI's furious hunt for these men.
• John Hamilton was actually mortally wounded in a gun battle with police near Hastings, Minnesota, hours after leaving Little Bohemia. Hamilton died three or four days later, depending on the source, at the apartment of Barker-Karpis gang member Volney Davis in Aurora, Illinois. Dillinger and Van Meter, along with members of the Barker-Karpis gang, buried Hamilton in a gravel pit in Oswego, Illinois. In an attempt to prevent identification of the body, 10 cans of lye were poured on the corpse and the right hand was cut off. Agents recovered the body on August 28, 1935. The Bureau was able to identify Hamilton by his teeth. Hamilton's teeth were later exhibited at the 1939 midwinter meeting of the Chicago Dental Society. Where Hamilton's choppers are presently located is unknown. A gruesome FBI photo of the recovered body can be seen in the photo section of Dary Matera's "The Life and Death of America's First Celebrity Criminal."
• Due to the concern of grave robbers, officials at Crown Hill Cemetery persuaded Dillinger's father to have his famous son's grave re-opened so as to place staggered concrete slabs, along with poured concrete and chicken wire, in and around the grave as a permanent deterrent. He'd already been offered $10,000 from a Wisconsin carnival man to "borrow" Dillinger's body for his show, an offer that was fiercely rejected. The grave work was done within a day or two of the initial burial. The identity of who paid for this expensive preventative measure is unknown.
• Most accounts have Dillinger dying within moments of getting shot outside of the Biograph. According to Special Agent Robert Gillespie, who was right beside the outlaw after he fell, it was approximately three minutes before Dillinger took his last gasp of air.
• After ratting Dillinger out to the Bureau in exchange for assurances that she be allowed to stay in the U.S., Anna Sage (real name Ana Cumpanas) collected a $5,000 reward and was duly deported back to Romania 21 months after the Biograph shooting.
• Billie Frechette (real name Mary Evelyn Frechette) was actually married to one Welton Spark at the time of her relationship with Dillinger. She married Spark in July 1932. He was convicted shortly thereafter for mail theft and received a 15-year term in Leavenworth, with a transfer to Alcatraz in September 1934. Her divorce from Spark wasn't finalized until the early '40s. She later married a man named Wally Wilson, the name she took to the grave. Wilson died unexpectedly, cause unknown, date unknown. Billie married Art Tic in 1965, a state game warden and barber from Shawano, Wisconsin. She died January 13, 1969, of mouth cancer. Mysteriously, her grave marker lists her name as Evelyn Tic (apparently against her wishes) and has the incorrect date of death as 1970.
• Dillinger's lawyer at Crown Point, Louis Piquett (pronounced "pick it"), never went to law school. He passed the bar on his fourth attempt, receiving his license to practice in 1920.
• The french title for Manhattan Melodrama (1934) is L'Ennemi public n°1.

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Although the unabridged subtitle of the Italian version reads "The extraordinary life of Giulio Andreotti", it doesn't chronicle all of the famed politician's life. Instead, it focuses on the most important period concerning his career: from 1978 to the early '90s. 1978 is, of course, when Aldo Moro, a member of the right-wing party Democrazia Cristiana just like Andreotti (Toni Servillo), was kidnapped and later executed by the Red Brigades. Andreotti shows no sign of emotion when he learns of the event, as usual: he has always been a quiet, secretive man. All that matters to him is the significant amount of power he gains over the years. As he points out when asked why he doesn't talk to God when he goes to church, "priests vote, God doesn't". Nevertheless, he certainly enjoys a little help from above when he is accused of various illegal activities, working with the Mafia and ordering assassinations being the most serious ones (let's not forget some conspiracy theorists believe he contributed to Moro's death, a conjecture that is dealt with in the film).

Sorrentino obviously put a lot of research into his work, and the opening title cards, which explain the movie's context, are his way of making sure viewers don't find his effort too confusing. It clearly paid off, since the picture walked away with the Jury Prize at the 2008 Cannes Festival, silencing rumors about being "too Italian". Predictably, the real Andreotti wasn't too impressed (word has it he even considered taking legal action against the filmmakers at one point). He obviously couldn't admit what happened on screen was true, so he made the following statement: "I don't agree with Sorrentino's portrayal of me, but I understand he had to make certain dramatic choices to make it interesting; my real life is actually quite boring". He has a point: there's a certain operatic grandeur to the scenes of the "Divo" walking around in government buildings and talking with his collaborators, a bit like in The Godfather. This gives the picture the greatness of a Greek tragedy, combined with the fiery spirit of politically charged movies like, say, Oliver Stone's body of work.

The Stone comparison isn't accidental, since he directed Nixon, which, much like Il Divo, depended hugely on its leading man. Stone had Anthony Hopkins, while Sorrentino has his Robert De Niro, namely the superb Servillo, whose transformation isn't a mere make-up job (to see what he really looks like, one ought to check out the equally magnificent Gomorra): the Neapolitan actor doesn't just play Andreotti, he becomes him. It's a performance that gets past mimicry or impersonation - it's Andreotti as a person, not a movie character.

So, the concerned party's opinion aside, everything speaks in favor of this ambitious, thought-provoking, stunning opus. In one word, to keep in with the complete title: extraordinary.

Category: Biography
All Genres: Biography, Drama, History
Release Year: 2008
Country: italy
Runtime: 110 minutes
Rating: 7.5/10
Languages: English

Director:

Paolo Sorrentino

Sound: Dolby Digital, SDDS, DTS

Writing by :

Paolo Sorrentino - writer

Produced by:

Stefano Bonfanti - associate producer
Francesca Cima - producer

Fabio Conversi - co-producer

Maurizio Coppolecchia - co-producer

Gennaro Formisano - line producer

Gianluigi Gardani - associate producer
Nicola Giuliano - producer
Andrea Occhipinti - producer
Viola Prestieri - line producer

Music By:

Teho Teardo

Cast:

Toni Servillo - Giulio Andreotti
Anna Bonaiuto - Livia Danese
Piera Degli Esposti - Signora Enea
Paolo Graziosi - Aldo Moro
Giulio Bosetti - Eugenio Scalfari
Flavio Bucci - Franco Evangelisti
Carlo Buccirosso - Paolo Cirino Pomicino
Giorgio Colangeli - Salvo Lima
Alberto Cracco - Don Mario
Lorenzo Gioielli - Mino Pecorelli
Gianfelice Imparato - Vincenzo Scotti
Massimo Popolizio - Vittorio Sbardella
Aldo Ralli - Giuseppe Ciarrapico
Giovanni Vettorazzo - Magistrato Scarpinato
Cristina Serafini - Caterina Stagno
Achille Brugnini - Fiorenzo Angelini
Victor Goubanov - Mikhail Gorbachev
Bob Marchese - Senatore

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Plot: The story of Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, who has been elected to Parliament seven times since it was established in 1946. The narration spans the period since the seventh election of Andreotti as Prime Minister of Italy in 1992, until the trial in which he was accused of collusion with the Mafia.

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Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, History
Release Year: 2008
Country: UK, Ireland
Runtime: 96 minutes
Rating: 7.8/10
Languages: English

Director:

Steve McQueen

Sound: Dolby Digital, SDDS, DTS

Writing by :

Steve McQueen - writer
Enda Walsh - writer

Produced by:

Iain Canning - executive producer
Peter Carlton - executive producer
Edmund Coulthard - executive producer
Robin Gutch - producer
Laura Hastings-Smith - producer
Linda James - executive producer
Andrew Litvin - line producer
Jan Younghusband - executive producer

Music By:

Leo Abrahams
David Holmes

Cast:

Michael Fassbender - Bobby Sands
Stuart Graham - Ray Lohan
Helena Bereen - Ray's mother
Larry Cowan - Prison Guard
Liam Cunningham - Father Moran
Helen Madden - Mrs Sands
Des McAleer - Mr Sands
Dennis McCambridge - Beaten Prisoner
Liam McMahon - Gerry
Laine Megaw - Mrs. Lohan
Brian Milligan - Davey
Rory Mullen - Priest
Ben Peel - Stephen Graves - Prison guard
Lalor Roddy - William
B.J. Hogg - Prison guard

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Plot: The film stars Michael Fassbender as Bobby Sands, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer who led the 1981 Irish hunger strike and participated in the no wash protest (led by Brendan "The Dark" Hughes) in which Republican prisoners tried to win political status. It dramatises events in the Maze prison in the six weeks prior to Sands’ death.

The film opens with prison guard, Raymond Lohan (Stuart Graham) preparing to leave for work; checking under his car for bombs, putting on his uniform in the locker room and ignoring the camaraderie of his colleagues. We then see short clips of Lohan at various points throughout the day and notice his knuckles are bloodied and cut. Davey (Brian Milligan), a new IRA prisoner arrives at the prison and, following his refusal to wear the prison uniform, he is labelled a "non-conforming prisoner" and made to strip naked, and given only a blanket. He arrives at his cell where his new roommate, Gerry (Liam McMahon), has smeared the walls with faeces from floor to ceiling. The two men get to know each other and we see them living out their lives, including a visit by family members where we see Bobby Sands speak with his parents and one man's girlfriend sneaks a radio in by wrapping it and keeping it in her vagina.

We then see the guards, who are exceptionally brutal, forcibly removing the prisoners from their cells and beating them before finally pinning them down and using scissors to cut their long hair and beards, grown as part of their no wash protest. Sands fights back and as he's being brought into the room he punches Lohan, who punches him back and then swings again, only to miss and punch the wall, causing his knuckles to bleed. He cuts Sands' hair and beard, the men throw him in the bath tub and scrub him clean before hauling him away again. Lohan is then seen having a smoke, like in the opening scenes, his hand bloodied.

Shortly after this we see a large number of riot police coming into the prison on a truck. They line up and beat their batons against their shields and scream to scare the prisoners, who are then hauled from their cells, beaten heavily, then thrown in between the lines of riot police where they are beaten with the batons by at least 10 men and then hauled before Lohan and several of his colleagues; one of whom using the same pair of latex gloves for every man and every task, probes first their anus and then their mouths. One man manages to head-butt a guard and is promptly beaten without mercy by a police officer with severe brutality.

The next scene shows Lohan entering a retirement home where he sits with his catatonic mother, and brings her daisies. He is promptly shot in the neck by an IRA assassin and dies slumped onto his mother's lap, with her sitting motionless not knowing what happened. Sands is then shown meeting his Priest and discussing the morality of a hunger strike. This meeting is lengthy and contains important dialogue regarding why Sands chose to do what he did and how strongly he believed in his cause. The rest of the film shows Sands well into his hunger strike, with bleeding sores all over his body, kidney failure, low blood pressure, stomach ulcers, and the inability to stand on his own by the end. Emotionally powerful, the film spares no detail in Sands' condition and suffering, as we see him get worse and continue to refuse food. In the last days, while Sands lies in a bath, a larger orderly comes in to give his usual orderly a break. The larger orderly sits next to the tub and shows Sands his knuckles, which are tattooed with the letters "UDA", for Ulster Defence Association. Sands tries to stand on his own and eventually does so with all his strength, staring defiantly at the UDA orderly who refused to help him up, but then he crumbles in a heap on the floor with no strength left to stand. The orderly carries him to his room.

Sands' parents arrive and stay there for the final days, and his mother is at his side when Sands finally loses his life. The film explains that Sands had been elected to the British Parliament as MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone while he was on strike. Nine other men died with him during the seven-month strike, causing the British government to cave in to the demands of prisoner rights, despite never officially granting political status to the prisoners.

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• Michael Fassbender had to go on a medically monitored crash diet to portray Bobby Sands, much to the horror of those around him.
• Contains a 16.5 minute single shot.
• The second medical attendant (one with mustache) who takes care of Bobby Sands in the hospital, has a ''UDA'' tattoo on his left hand. UDA is shortening for Ulster Defence Association, a loyalist paramilitary organization in Northern Ireland.

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Taglines:Many saw evil. They dared to stop it.

Writing by:Christopher McQuarrie - (written by) and
Nathan Alexander - (written by)

Produced by:Gilbert Adler- producer
Nathan Alexander - co producer
Chris Brock - line producer
Lee Cleary - Co-producer
Tom Cruise - Executive producer
Ken Kamins - Executive Producer
Chris Lee - Executive producer
Oliver Lüer - Line producer
Christopher McQuarrie - producer

Cast:Tom Cruise- Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg
Kenneth Branagh- Major-General Henning von Tresckow
Bill Nighy- General Friedrich Olbricht
Tom Wilkinson- General Friedrich Fromm
Carice van Houten- Nina von Stauffenbergn
Thomas Kretschmann- Major Otto Ernst Remer
Terence Stamp- Ludwig Beck
Eddie Izzard- General Erich Fellgiebel
Kevin McNally- Dr. Carl Goerdeler

Christian Berkel- Colonel Mertz von Quirnheim
Jamie Parker- Lieutenant Werner von Haeften

David Bamber- Adolf Hitler

Music:John Ottman

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Plot Outline: Based on actual events, a plot to assassinate Hitler is unfurled during the height of World War II

Plot: In Nazi Germany during World War II, as the tide turned in favor of The Allies, a cadre of senior German officers and politicians desperately plot to topple the Nazi regime before the nation is crushed in a near-inevitable defeat. To this end, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, an Army officer convinced he must save Germany from Hitler, is recruited to mastermind a real plan. To do so, he arranges for the internal emergency measure, Operation: Valkyrie, to be changed to enable his fellows to seize control of Berlin after the assassination of the Fuhrer. However, even as the plan is put into action, a combination of bad luck and human failings conspire on their own to create a tragedy that would prolong the greater one gripping Europe

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• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Colonel von Stauffenberg and his wife have very dark hair, yet their children have blond hair. The gene for blond hair is generally recessive, so if both parents are carriers, each child has a 25% chance of having blond hair. Additionally, some of the real Stauffenberg children had blond hair.

• Factual errors: Hermann Goering is not wearing his "Blue Max" WWI medal. It should have been around his neck, with his Iron Cross. Another character ('Pompous General') is correctly shown wearing his Blue Max.

• Factual errors: When von Stauffenberg is recruited in the church, the camera pans up to show the bombed-out ceiling. Nuns and priests removed the stained glass windows from churches and buried them outside cities before the Allied forces began bombing Germany. If the ceiling was bombed out, the stained glass windows shouldn't be there.

• Revealing mistakes: Colonel von Stauffenberg travels to and from secret meetings with Hitler in a Mercedes-Benz convertible. If you look closely at the front chrome grill, you can clearly see shiny outlines of various emblems that were removed prior to filming. The emblems are placed on Mercedes-Benz cars by their owners to indicate milestones in mileage, etc. They would never have been on a Nazi car.

• Factual errors: The building the German army barricades in Berlin is identified as the Ministry of Interior. In was actually the Reich Air Ministry. Today, it is the German Finance Ministry.

• Continuity: When von Stauffenberg changes in the room before setting the bomb, the cut on his neck disappears when he exits.

• Factual errors: The aircraft Hitler rides, and which the plotters attempt to blow up, is a Ju-52 trimotor. In reality, Hitler's aircraft at the time was the four-engined FW-200 "Condor." None survived, so they couldn't be used for filming.

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Stauffenberg's left eye that is damaged. At one point when he is shaving, the patch is over his right eye. The camera is looking into a mirror.

• Factual errors: The scene at the Berlin Tempelhof Airport shows a Junkers 52 transport outside on the ramp, and a Messerschmitt 109 inside the hangar. The Messerschmitt appears to be a Spanish-built CASA, with an upright V British Merlin V-12 engine. Real Messerschmits had an inverted V Daimler-Benz engine. Very few airworthy examples of the Me-109 remain. The CASA type shown, which was flown at the 2008 Duxford Airshow, is fitted with a British Merlin engine.

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In one shot, when von Stauffenberg is showing Hitler the updated Valkyrie plan, he looks down with both eyes. His left eye is glass, but prosthetic eyes are fitted against the muscles, so they can move.

• Continuity: Shortly after the bombing attempt against Hitler, Col von Stauffenberg is standing in an office at the Ministry and the camera pulls out to reveal both hands intact, including all his fingers. He is supposed to have lost one of his hands and 2 fingers off his other hand.

• Factual errors: The Berlin Reserve are called out twice to contain the district as per the orders of "Operation Valkyrie". In all the shots, they are wearing full combat field kit. As garrisoned troops, they would only take their ammunition pouches, bayonet, and gas mask. They would also wear steel helmets, though officers could wear their field caps.

• Errors in geography: Stauffenberg and his adjunct are shown being driven on their way to have the new version of Walküre signed by Hitler. There is a panoramic view of the exterior of the Berghof (Hitler's private residence). It is shown situated on the extreme top of a hill with large mountains (the alps a kilometer away in the distance, but nothing directly behind it. In reality the Berghof was built onto the side of a hill and not the direct top. In any period photograph of the Berghof you will clearly see the hill continues to ascend behind the building and there was a thick forest of trees behind it as well (covering the hill well above the height of the Berghof's roof). In the film no trees are shown behind the main building and it is shown to basically stand on it's on on the top of a hill.

• Factual errors: In the first scene while Stauffenberg is writing a letter, he is thinking in English and writing in German. When he says the word "army" in his mind, the word he writes is "wehrmacht". The German word for "army" is "heer" or "armee", while "wehrmacht" means "armed forces".

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• There were 22 different dogs used in the movie, all playing the one main dog.

• Tobias Moretti was slated to play Adolf Hitler, but had to decline due to schedule conflicts.

• Carice van Houten, who plays Nina Stauffenberg, is the longtime companion of Sebastian Koch, who played Stauffenberg in the critically acclaimed German TV movie Stauffenberg (2004) (TV)..

• Initially, Germany's Ministry of Defense would not allow filming on Bendler Block. They relented after appeals from Tom Cruise and Screenwriter/Producer Christopher McQuarrie. The entire crew started every night of filming with a moment of silence in memory of Stauffenberg.

• Eleven extras playing Wehrmacht soldiers were injured on the set when they fell out of a moving lorry (truck). One suffered a serious back injury, the rest had bruises, cuts, and head injuries. An insurance company investigation concluded that an extra closed the side panel improperly, causing it to open while the lorry was in motion.

• The film was originally scheduled for release on August 8, 2008, then moved up to June 27, 2008. The producer couldn't find a suitable location for the battle sequence in which Stauffenberg loses his eye and hand, halting production and moving release to October 3, 2008. Filming resumed in June 2008, and release was moved to February 13, 2009. After a successful test screening, release was finally moved to December 25, 2008.

• Three actors in the movie are born on December 12: Kenneth Cranham in 1944, Tom Wilkinson in 1948 and Bill Nighy in 1949.

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Writing by: James Cameron - (written by)

Produced by: James Cameron - producer
Pamela Easley - associate producer (as Pamela Easley Harris)
Al Giddings - co-producer
Grant Hill - co-producer
Jon Landau - producer
Sharon Mann - co-producer
Rae Sanchini - executive producer

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio - Jack Dawson
Kate Winslet - Rose DeWitt Bukater
Billy Zane - Caledon Cal Hockley
Kathy Bates - Molly Brown
Frances Fisher - Ruth Dewitt Bukater
Gloria Stuart - Old Rose
Bill Paxton - Brock Lovett
Bernard Hill - Captain Smith
David Warner - Spicer Lovejoy
Victor Garber - Thomas Andrews
Jonathan Hyde - Bruce Ismay

Music: James Horner
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Plot: 84 years later a 100-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukator tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell, and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancй, Caledon Cal Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning.

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There are no opening credits after the title has been shown.

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Incorrectly regarded as goofs: There are many minute contradictions of history, both in events and in the technical details of the ship. This film is prey to a large number of factual errors due to the large volume of documentary evidence from the actual event.

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• The studios wanted Matthew McConaughey, but James Cameron insisted on Leonardo DiCaprio.
• Fay Wray was originally offered the role of the older Rose but turned it down, saying, "I think to have done Titanic would have been a tortuous experience altogether". Hollywood legend Ann Rutherford also turned it down.
• Before announcing development of this film, director James Cameron shot footage of icebergs off Nova Scotia under the pretence of making a film called "Planet Ice."

Titanic Videos

• DailyMotion: Titanic Extended Trailer
• Google Video: Animation of sinking of titanic
• Metacafe: Titanic Tragedy
• QQ video: Titanic - alternate ending
• Tudou: Titanic | A | B | C | D |
• Yahoo Video: Academy of Achievement's Exclusive Interview James Cameron
• Youku: Titanic
• YouTube: Titanic Theatrical Trailer