- Directed by: Lewis Teague
- Written by John Sayles .
- Cast: Pamela Sue Martin ("Dynasty"), Robert Conrad ("The Wild Wild West", "Baa Baa Black Sheep"), Louise Fletcher ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")
- Year: 1979
July 1978 PLAYMATE: Karen Morton COVER: Pamela Sue Martin PICTORIALS: Pamela Sue Martin as Nancy Drew; Call of the Wildw/Susan Jenssen INTERVIEW: William Colby FEATURES: Carl Sagan on paranormal phenomena; pull out poster of Elvis Presley by LeRoy Neiman; Martin Mull's Make-Out Guide; William Masters on First night Sexual Disasters; Playboy Funnies.1930's gangster era film about Dillinger and his last girl. Format: Color, DVD, NTSC Language: English Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.) Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Number of discs: 1 Rated: R (Restricted) Studio: New Concorde DVD Release Date: April 30, 2002 Run Time: 93 minutesPamela Sue Martin kicked off the goody two shoes from her Nancy Drew image to play the feisty farm girl with Hollywood dreams who walked out of the Biograph on the arm of John Dillinger the night he was killed by the FBI. John Sayles wrote this depression-era gangster drama, loosely based on the real story of Polly Hamilton (renamed Polly Franklin for the film), and stuffs plenty of sex and social commentary around a surprisingly faithful recounting of the real-life event. Martin tran! sforms from naive young thing to brassy hustler without losing her sweetness, and Robert Conrad is quite the gentleman hoodlum as Dillinger, but the unsung hero of the piece is Robert Forster, uncredited but indelible as a hit man who falls for fallen woman Polly. Colorful, action packed, and full of underdog spunk, this is exploitation moviemaking with a populist sensibility.
--Sean Axmaker
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