Product: Myrna Loy & Williams Powell: Collection (2007)
Rating: 5.0
Dillinger's last show
A great set. Few people know that Manhattan Melodrama was the film that the infamous gangster John Dillinger saw just before he was gunned down by FBI agent C.B. Winstead outside the Biograph Theater on Chicago's Lincoln Avenue on July 22, 1934. Dillinger was in the company of two women, one of whom is believed to have set him up. Dillinger was shot three times with a Colt .45 automatic: one shot through the lung and out the chest, one shot through the head and out below the right eye, and the third round grazing his face. He died within minutes. An unfired Colt .380 automatic was found in his pocket. One can only wonder what he thought about while watching Clark Gable in this great gangster film, perhaps wondering if his own life of crime was about to come to a sudden end.