The top mistakes in Public Enemies http://www.moviemistakes.com/film7930 en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:55:33 +0000 150693 Early in the movie, during a bank robbery, there is an FDIC sign beside the teller. Dillinger's bank robberies were mostly in 1933, he was arrested in January 1934. The FDIC was not enacted until January 1934, making it impossible for the bank to have been insured by the FDIC during the 1933 robberies. Additionally, in the same robbery, the teller displays $5 bills that are the current format (multiple colors, offset picture, larger numbers) which would not have been present at that time. 150605 The film is set in the 1930s, but when there is a closeup of a sheet of text (a conversation between Billie and John), it is typed out in a computer font (which did not exist) as opposed to a typewriter. 151284 In one scene, focused on a car on the street, you can look closely and spot a modern-day vehicle in the background. http://failblog.org/2009/07/19/public-enemies-fail/. 150678 When Dillinger is looking at his watch just before going to the movies, you can see that the time is 6:00. Close-up of his mum's photo, and the time is now something like 6:25. 150692 When John Dillinger escapes from jail by stealing a police car, the car slowly stops at a traffic light and we can see officers to the left of John (and the car). In the overhead shot of the car and the traffic light, the officers have disappeared from the sidewalk, but in the following shot the officers are still there.