- Movie Goof (factual errors): John Dillinger is seen in the film opening his pocket watch, looking at Billie Frechette's photo inside, then closing the watch and bringing it with him to the Biograph. The watch actually contained a photograph of Polly Hamilton.
- SPOILER: Pretty Boy Floyd was killed after John Dillinger, not before, as depicted in the film. He was shot and killed on October 22nd, 1934. Three months to the day after Dillinger.
- Movie Goof (revealing mistake): A number of scenes depict newsreel cameramen operating hand cranked 'pancake' Akeley motion picture cameras that would have been used for recording silent film footage only. The actors are cranking these cameras way slower than would have been normal in such 'news' situations and would only have been cranked in this fashion to record high-speed, fast-paced special effects footage.
- SPOILER: At one point, Alvin Karpis is seen planning a federal reserve train robbery with John Dillinger. In real life, the robbery was set up by an underworld associate of Dillinger, Karpis, and Baby Face Nelson named William Murray. Interestingly, Murray had set up the exact same robbery back in 1925 with the Newton Brothers (as seen in the film The Newton Boys). Although John Dillinger was killed before he could take part in the robbery, Alvin Carpis did pull it off on November 7th, 1935.
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