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A publicity photo for Dillinger. Ben, as Melvin Purvis, is carrying out Dillinger's wounded girlfriend, Billie Frechette (Michelle Phillips), in the aftermath of the shoot-out at the Little Bohemia Lodge in Wisconsin. This is a fictionalized version of the historical event. Purvis did lead the assault, but Frechette was not there; she had been arrested two weeks earlier on charges of harboring a criminal. The Little Bohemia Lodge (https://littlebohemialodge.com/) is still in operation. You can read the true story of the shoot-out at the Lodge here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Bohemia_Lodge
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A publicity photo for Dillinger. This picture is either posed for the camera or taken from cut footage as this particular shot is not in the film. This is from the scene where Purvis and his men and other law enforcement officials as well as armed locals surround an abandoned farmhouse where Wilbur Underhill, the "Tri-State Terror" is having a honeymoon with his bride, who apparently is killed by Underhill rather than let the authorities capture her. Ben, as Purvis, goes in the house, shoots Underhill, who staggers out and dies in a field, and he then brings out the body of the dead woman. This is a highly fictionalized version of what really happened at the farmhouse. Go here to read the true story: https://www.babyfacenelsonjournal.com/wilbur-underhill.html
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A publicity photo for Dillinger. Standing next to Ben with his hand in his pocket is stuntman/character actor Roy Jensen, best known for his heavies, but here playing a good guy, Melvin Purvis's right-hand man, FBI agent Samuel Cowley. Jensen and Ben made a lot of movies together, including Dillinger, Will Penny, Breakheart Pass, the TV-movie The Red Pony (in which Jensen punches out Ben's lights) and most notably, The Getaway, with Jensen as Ben's menacing, silent-but-deadly brother Cully, nearly unrecognizable with the mustache and big glasses.
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Publicity photo for Dillinger. The actress is Athea Hadden and she played Melvin Purvis' fiancée Janice Jarvis. Hadden appeared in only one scene and had only a few words of dialogue. Although a "bedroom scene" is mentioned in the movie's program book -- presumably during which Ben and Althea Hadden posed for this photo -- it was cut from the finished movie.
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