Public Enemies

The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.

This is the story of the last few years of the notorious bank robber John Dillinger. He loved what he did and could imagine little else that would make him happier. Living openly in 1930s Chicago, he had the run of the city with little fear of reprisals from the authorities. It's there that he meets Billie Frechette with whom he falls deeply in love. In parallel we meet Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent who would eventually track Dillinger down. The FBI was is in its early days and Director J. Edgar Hoover was keen to promote the clean cut image that so dominated the organization through his lifetime. Purvis realizes that if he is going to get Dillinger, he will have to use street tactics and imports appropriate men with police training. Dillinger is eventually betrayed by an acquaintance who tells the authorities just where to find him on a given night.

Follow Bonnie & Clyde’s track through the United States! 1933. Janette Jones Parker is a writer and has taken a room in the Red Crown Tavern in Platte City, Missouri, to write her next novel. She discovers it is where Bonnie & Clyde used to hide, and there she finds a notebook, which ends to be Bonnie’s log. Help Janette to decipher the strange message left by Bonnie along her journey! Go through the United States, on the tracks of the two outlaws!

While Pretty Boy Floyd has continued to exist and remain active following a brief hiatus in the early-mid 90s, the group never quite recaptured the popularity spawned by their late 80s debut, Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz. That has not stopped classic band members Steve “Sex” Summers and Kristy “Krash” Majors from going on making music, though, and retaining a solid fanbase.

In the Australia of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, armed robbers were the top of the criminal food chain. Their dash and violence were celebrated, and men like Russell 'Mad Dog' Cox and Ray Denning were household names long before Underbelly established Melbourne's gangland thugs as celebrities.