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Wow! That side-by-side of the real Dillinger and Warren Oates as John Dillinger is amazing. Oates had an INCREDIBLE resemblance to Dillinger. BTW, Elmore Leonard loved Warren Oates as Dillinger and claimed it was one of his favorite movies. Did Leonard also do the screenwriting for Dillinger?

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Wow! That side-by-side of the real Dillinger and Warren Oates as John Dillinger is amazing. Oates had an INCREDIBLE resemblance to Dillinger. BTW, Elmore Leonard loved Warren Oates as Dillinger and claimed it was one of his favorite movies. Did Leonard also do the screenwriting for Dillinger?

I don't think so. I didn't even have to look that one up, as the film was written and directed by Sam Peckinpah contemporary John Milius, who of course also gave us Conan the Barbarian, Jeriamiah Johnson and The Wind and the Lion.

Leonard might have done some behind the scenes reading or other work on the Dillinger script, but I don't think that's quite the style of the way Milius works.