Edger Hoover is determined to stop his ilk by assigning ace agent Melvin Purvis to hunt down Dillinger. As Dillinger becomes a folk hero, FBI head J. Of them, none is more notorious than John Dillinger, whose gang plies its trade with cunning efficiency against big businesses while leaving ordinary citizens alone.
The difficult 1930s is a time of robbers who knock over banks and other rich targets with alarming frequency.
