urd nl a a) PUBLIC Screenplay by Ronan Bennett and Michael Mann & Ann BidermanAL cl cla c1B 6/15/08 (3rd pink) MM revs. 1. TITLE: SEPTEMBER 26, 1933. Bl MOVED TO SC CIA, CIB Al - BL INT. INDIANA STATE PRISON, MICHIGAN CITY, INDIANA - LINE OF Cl convicts Men wear striped cotton uniforms. Each man is against the back of the man in front. They wait. It's freezing. The prison is on silence. Not a word may be spoken. Guards wear large overcoats. They bark a command. The line of striped convicts marches forward in mandated, perfect lock step: right, then left. Regimentation is designed to crush the spirit. These are hard men with shorn hair, broken noses, eyes frozen forward. "Eyeballing" gets you beaten, thrown in the hole. In some of the eyes we SEE a cold ferocity, spirits that are unsurrendered. Like Alcatraz, Leavenworth, and Sing Sing, this is the end of the line. PRISON GUARDS in visored black caps, black Sam Browne belts, and warm overcoats with three-foot long billy clubs watch the line, poised to unleash. AMONG THE HARD MEN ARE... HARRY "PETE" PIERPONT (32), 6 foot 1 with eerie blue eyes. Brilliant, violent, he hates all authority. CHARLES MAKLEY (44), squat with an anvil jaw, facial scars and as calm as Pierpont is volatile. HOMER VAN METER (27), an incorrigible clown and an unemotional killer. He would continue to ridicule guards even when it cost him months in the hole. THESE THREE with an older man, WALTER DIETRICH, are in the syncopated footfall of the 7am workline to the prison Shirt Factory... EXT. BRICK STREETS OF MICHIGAN CITY, INDIANA (LOCKPORT) cla is parked at the curb. It waits. INT. NASH - "RED" HAMILTON (34) (LOCKPORT) ciB looks at his watch. With his meticulously parted red hair, he might be a bank president. It's 6:55 a.m. HAMILTON Time. (CONTINUED)6/15/08 (3rd pink) MM revs. C1B CONTINUED: cB Thirty year old JOHN HERBERT DILLINGER is in the backseat. He nods. His arms are behind him. We don't know why. Red starts the car and drives forward. cur To: D1 INT. INDIANA STATE PRISON, SALLYPORT - TURNKEY (STATESVILLE) D1 * watches in the observation window (room to the east of * sallyport) the Nash pull into the parking area in front of * the prison. Hamilton jerks a handcuffed Dillinger out of the backseat and pushes him forward towards the sallyport. * Hamilton's wearing a star. Turnkey goes to sallyport itself * and opens the gate with a button. * TURNKEY (opening up) Morning. Hamilton shoves Dillinger inside. Hamilton (greenscreen) SEES * thru a barred window into the changing room. * Dipt1OVER HAMILTON - FIVE GUARDS (JOLIET) Dipti * play poker. Beyond them is the barred entrance to the prison yard. D1pt2ON DILLINGER (STATESVILLE) Dipt2 * As the exterior bars lock behind, this is the last place John Dillinger wants to have entered. Meanwhile... El INT. INDIANA STATE PRISON - THE SHIRT FACTORY: STACKS OF El BOXES (JOLIET) + and bolts of fabric wait for the line of convicts from sc. * Cl. 7am. A KLAXON sounds. Door opens. Convicts enter. Walter * Dietrich goes right to the stacks and selects a box with an "x" crayoned on the side. It's labeled "Thread." "THREAD" BOX arrives with Dietrich at a busy work station with Pierpont, Makley and Van Meter. Under spools we REVEAL surreptitiously four Colt .45 automatics with loaded magazines. GUARD DAINARD * is approached by Pierpont, who suddenly shoves the .45 in his face. (CONTINUED)