By Stephen Schaefer Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - Updated 46m ago There’s something about gangsters that keeps movie audiences coming back for more. Johnny Depp is the latest actor to jump into a getaway car when “Public Enemies” opens Wednesday. Depp stars as John Dillinger, the 1930s gangster branded “Public Enemy Number One” by the FBI. Dillinger’s infamous career as a bank robber earned him a certain folk hero status with an American public struggling through the Great Depression. His exploits as a thief and killer made headlines during the early ’30s, along with those of fellow outlaws Ma Barker and Pretty Boy Floyd. That was also Hollywood’s Golden Age of Gangsters, during which this trio of classics was made: “The Public Enemy” (1931) made Jimmy Cagney a star as Tom Powers, a hoodlum who comes up through the ranks of... [read full story]
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