An ‘ace bad man’ almost gets his due
By Bob Denerstein 
| July 2, 2009 | 4:00 PM
Johnny Depp stars as John Dillinger in "Public Enemies".
When John Dillinger was shot outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago on a July night in 1934, Jack Lait of the International News service reported the event in the kind of pulpy prose that defined some of the day’s best journalism: “John Dillinger, ace bad man of the world, got his last night — two slugs through his heart and one through his head.”
I thought about Lait’s description of Dillinger — ace bad man of the world — while I watched Public Enemies, director Michael Mann’s carefully crafted, richly designed look at Dillinger’s criminal career.
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