Product Details

• Actors: Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips, Cloris Leachman, Harry Dean Stanton
• Directors: John Milius
• Writers: John Milius
• Producers: Buzz Feitshans, Lawrence Gordon, Robert Papazian, Samuel Z. Arkoff
• Format: Color, EP, Original recording reissued, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Good Times Video
• VHS Release Date: May 15, 2001
• Run Time: 107 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303920101
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #272,378 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is not history. Who cares?, September 11, 2003

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Terry Chance (Beaumont, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dillinger (DVD)

This is not a completely true story. This is not a documentary. It is just a fun movie to watch based very loosely on a few gangsters around the early to mid 1930's. The lead roles are bank robber John Dillinger and FBI agent Melvin Purvis. While trying to capture or kill Dillinger, Purvis runs across a few other notable gangsters of the day. If you want true history, don't get it from Hollywood, head to your local library. If you want to watch a fun movie, check this one out. I believe that many people write reviews to impress others with their knowledge of history. If I was sitting in a college class, that may be significant. While I am watching a movie, who cares?

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Warren Oates IS Dillinger, March 9, 1999

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Emmett C Jesberg (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dillinger [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is one of the fastest moving movies you're likely to ever see. Warren Oates was the only man to play the part of John Dillinger (he even looks like him). When Harry Dean Stanton says "things aren't workin' out for me today", you gotta laugh. Whether it's romanticized or not, who cares. It's a fun movie to watch and if you like to see lots of spent brass flyin', you'll love it. My only 2 regrets are that it's not on DVD and that it's recorded in the LP mode on the VHS.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "Please don't shoot me G-man!", October 31, 2002

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anomj7t7 "anomj7t7" (Quinton, Va United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dillinger (DVD)

Films about historical events that play fast and loose with the facts usually get under my skin...big time.That aside,I must say that I really enjoyed this film, despite the fact it seemed to get very few of the essential facts right.Ben Johnson was miscast
Melvin Purvis as well as Harry Dean Stanton as Homer Van Meter, but both were great as always.Warren Oates is one heck of a character actor and as character actors go,can do no wrong(the man's a genius).The butchering job on the history was done,I assume,to facilitate a smoother narrative and keep the movies length from expanding into epic like proportions.The scene depicting Van Meter's demise was a brilliant piece of black humor(most obviously based on pages 123 and 124 of John Toland's "The Dillinger days")but in actuality the whole incident happened *before* the shootout at "Little Bohemia" and to an earlier gang member,James Jenkins(Van Meter bought the farm in St.Paul MN).A previous reviewer mentioned the length of the gun battles and couldn't have been more dead on...If that kind of battle had happened at the Little Bohemia lodge I think all of Rhinelander Wisconsin would have been destroyed!All done in the grand Hollywood tradition (think "Gunfight at the OK Corral") of padding an actual event to get the most mileage (and violence) out of it.This movie was great fun...Just don't delude yourself into believing you know the real story after viewing this film.