Dillinger and Capone

Dillinger and Capone is a 1995 American action film directed by Jon Purdy and starring Martin Sheen, F. Murray Abraham, Michael Oliver, Catherine Hicks, and Don Stroud. The film was screened at MystFest in Cattolica, Italy and the Cannes Film Festival in 1995. Written by Michael B. Druxman, the film is not based in real events but imagines a world in which John Dillinger is not killed at the Biograph Theater and lives on to work with Al Capone. The film was acquired by Cinemax and aired on their cable television network periodically in 1996. In 1997 the film was acquired by HBO and aired periodically on that television network. Plot On July 22, 1934, George (Don Stroud) is shot and runs to John Dillinger’s door. George calls out to John but when John answers the door, it turns out to be his brother Roy (Joe Estevez). Roy tells George that John is at the movies, George tells Roy to tell John (Martin Sheen) about the setup about the guards trying to killing him in the theater. Roy runs to the biograph theater to found out he had been set for what was supposed to happen to his brother, Perkins (Michael C. Gwynne) shoots Roy to death thinking it’s John Dillinger. John Dillinger (Martin Sheen) hears the gunshots and goes inside the Biograph Theater to see his brothers dead body on the floor. The authorities believe that they have killed Dillinger, and he decides to take advantage of the mistake and retire with anonymity.