Public Enemies

Year 1933.Writer, Janette Jones Parker, has booked a room in Platte City, Missouri to write her next novel. The Red Crown Tavern was once a hideout for infamous outlaws, Bonnie and Clyde, and Janette is shocked to discover a notebook, which Bonnie had used as her adventure log! Travel the United States on the tracks of two infamous outlaws, and rummage through their haunts: a bar, a hotel, a refugee camp, and of course, banks, all decked out in '30s style. Can you help Janette to decipher the strange message left by Bonnie during her journey?.

FBI agent Melvin Purvis (Bale) sets his sights on American gangsters John Dillinger (Depp) and Pretty Boy Floyd (Tatum) in an attempt to curb a rampant Midwest crime spree during the 1930s.

In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI to tell the full story—for the first time—of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover and the assortment of criminals who became national icons: John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barkers. In an epic feat of storytelling and drawing on a remarkable amount of newly available material on all the major figures involved, Burrough reveals a web of interconnections within the vast American underworld and demonstrates how Hoover's G-men overcame their early fumbles to secure the FBI's rise to power.

In this study of Hollywood gangster films, Jonathan Munby examines their controversial content and how it was subjected to continual moral and political censure.