Dealers in Death. A revealing look at the lives of such criminal luminaries as John Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd and Bruno Hauptmann, exposing the characters, their crimes, the social-political environment that fostered and the folklore that followed them. Narrated by Broderick Crawford.
Opening titles and graphics. Murder and Mayhem in America headline superimposed over newspaper.
Stills of John Dillinger, Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd.
Roaring Twenties/gangster montage: CUs machine guns & pistols firing, sometimes into the camera; thugs tossing rocks into window of store; gangsters with rifles in car at night; shakedown; beer barrels being shot up, destroyed; a car is run off the road by another car; a building explodes at night.
Newspaper headlines regarding Baby Face Nelson killing the agent who got Dillinger, the Barrow gang, announcement of execution of Bruno Hauptmann
Paperboy selling papers on city corner.
Old west bandits (culled from old silent Western): criminals outside store, sheriff (Al Jennings) shooting at lawbreakers.
Still photos of Jesse and Frank James, Billy the Kid, Dalton Brothers, Clanton Gang, Calamity Jane, Al Jennings, Judge Roy Bean, Belle Starr.
Cover of Jessie James book.
Still photos
1930s montage: shots of criminals being led into US Marshall paddy wagon, paddy wagon pulling off
Great Depression. Men hitching a ride on a rail car
Prohibition ends. Bartender pouring steins of beer
Franklin D. Roosevelt signing legislation;
Adolf Hitler speaking at a Nazi rally. Two soldiers stand at attention.