John Dillinger was shot and killed by FBI Agents on the night of July 22, 1934, while exiting Chicago's Biograph Theater, where he had attended a screening of Le due strade (1934). While the Biograph Theater was still operating at the time of the production of this movie, the interior had been converted into several smaller venues, and no longer resembled the Depression-era movie palace it had been, at the time of Dillinger's death. Production scouts for this movie found that the Paramount Theatre in nearby Aurora, Illinois resembled the Biograph Theater of 1934 enough to double as that venue. For that reason, the interiors for two scenes were filmed there: The scene in which John Dillinger and his cohorts attend a movie, and are alarmed to see themselves and their photographs featured during a newsreel, and the scene taking place immediately prior to Dillinger's death. The exterior of the Biograph Theater during the latter scene, however, depicts that actual historic venue, "dressed" to appear as it did in 1934.

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