Details

Release year: 1957

Storyline

George "Babyface" Nelson became one of the most important gangsters of 1930's Chicago by making brutal robberies. In order to compete with Al Capone, he allied himself with John Dillinger.

Top credits

Directors

Don Siegel

Writers

Cast

Mickey Rooney — Lester M. 'Baby Face Nelson' Gillis
Carolyn Jones — Sue Nelson
Cedric Hardwicke — Doc Saunders
Leo Gordon — John Dillinger

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Did you know

• Producer AI Zimbalist wanted the film, which took place in the mid 1930s, to use cars manufactured in the forties. Director Don Siegel refused categorically.

• The notorious "Lady in Red", who lured John Dillinger to the theater where he was shot and killed by the F.B.I., was named Anna Sage. Before production of this movie started, it was not known if Sage was still alive. She had been deported to her native Romania shortly after the incident, and the producers didn't want to use her real name without her permission for fear of being sued if she were indeed alive. So they named her "Ann Saper", which was the maiden name of director Don Siegel's mother.

• Shot in seventeen days.