The Vendetta: Special Agent Melvin Purvis, John Dillinger, and Hoover's FBI in the Age of Gangsters
Jesse's Café Américain (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... dogs openly flout the law, of course they will be back. What the US needs is the reincarnation of Melvin Purvis with a minor in finance. I would put Eliot Spitzer in charge of the SEC with the right resources and let him rip through Wall Street like the wrath of God, and make the bankers howl. But that probably won't happen, because there is too much dirt, too many scandals on both...
SimplyScripts (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... becomes a folk hero, FBI head J. Edger Hoover is determined to stop his ilk by assigning ace agent Melvin Purvis to hunt down Dillinger. As Purvis struggles with the manhunt’s realities, Dillinger himself faces an ominous future with the loss of friends, dwindling options and a changing world of organized crime with no room for him. Information courtesy of imdb.com
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... put them on. We were pretty much the same size.' The movie also stars Christian Bale as detective Melvin Purvis. 'Public Enemies' is a 2009 American crime film co-written and directed by Michael Mann. Set during the Great Depression, it focuses on the true story of FBI agent Melvin Purvis's attempt to stop criminals John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Pretty Boy Floyd....
Movie Talk (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... man dubbed America’s first-ever Public Enemy Number One. So Hoover assigns straight-arrow agent Melvin Purvis (a typically dour Christian Bale ) to run Dillinger and his gang to ground. The contest between cop and crook, hunter and hunted, crops up again and again in Mann’s work, but the duel of wits between Depp’s cavalier Dillinger and Bale’s dogged Purvis never achieves...
