Based on Brian Burrough's book "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43". History of the legendary bandit of the Great Depression, John Dillinger (Johnny Depp), the charismatic bank robber who became the number one target of the fledgling FBI of J. Edgar Hoover and his best agent, Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale), and a popular hero for the suffering people. No one was able to stop Dillinger and his band. There was no prison that resisted him.