- Movie Goof (factual errors): In the street scenes in which streetcar tracks are present, there are no suspended overhead wires. The overhead provided electricity to power the cars.
- Movie Goof (factual errors): The film depicts the FBI going after John Dillinger before his escape from the Crown Point, Indiana jail. In reality, they couldn't have pursued him because until that escape Dillinger had never committed a federal crime and therefore the FBI lacked jurisdiction over him. When he escaped from Crown Point he drove his stolen car over the state line from Indiana to Illinois - thereby committing his first federal offense and giving the FBI the pretext it needed to go after him.
- SPOILER: The portrayal of the death of gangster George Baby Face Nelson in this film is completely fictionalized. On November 27, 1934 (four months after Dillinger's death), Nelson encountered two FBI agents, Samuel Cowley and Ed Hollis, in Barrington, Illinois, just outside Chicago. In a roadside battle, Nelson shot and killed both FBI agents, but was mortally wounded. He escaped in a bullet-riddled car driven by his wife, and died that evening in a nearby safe house. Nelson's body was found the next day, wrapped in a blanket and lying in a ditch next to a cemetery in Skokie, Illinois. His wife placed a call to police to tell them where to find the body.
- Movie Goof (factual errors): SPOILER: Agent Melvin Purvis and his men hunt down Baby Face Nelson, Van Meter, and a third man in a car chase. This ends with all three gangsters being shot dead. However, Van Meter & Nelson are actually killed after John Dillinger on separate occasions. Baby Face Nelson even took over as public enemy #1 upon Dillinger's death.
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