THE STRAIGHT DOPE:
What's a cheapo Roger Corman production doing starring classy names like Martin Sheen and F. Murray Abraham? Not much, apparently. Dillinger and Capone offers the two actors up as a pair of legendary gangsters past their prime and looking for the limelight. Abraham's Al Capone is fresh from prison and looking to regain control of Chicago. Sheen's Dillinger, having faked his own death years before, finds himself pulled out of retirement to help.

While the pair plan schemes and heists to take over, it becomes increasingly clear that their styles are not a good match: Capone is nearly mad from years of disease and imprisonment while Dillinger has spent the last five years trying to get away from his violent past. The machinations of setting up the bank heist and the scenery-chomping acting of most of the cast makes this rote gangster flick seem unnecessary and uneventful, although it's fun to see 7th Heaven's soccer mom Catherine Hicks playing Dillinger's wife.

VIDEO:
The full-frame video is unremarkable. The colors are muted (probably by design), but the film is soft and dull. Overall, not a beautiful presentation.

AUDIO:
The mono audio is murky and undistinguished.

EXTRAS:
Just a trailer.

FINAL THOUGHTS:
Not a high-point in the careers of either of the award-winning leads or the prolific producer, this is one instance where the total is less than the sum of its parts. For serious gangland junkies only.