Did Purvis and Dillinger actually show up at the same restaurant?
Seems a little contrived.
shareNope. The only times the two were ever in the same place together were at Little Bohemia, and in front of the Biograph Theater. They may have had brief eye contact at the Biograph, but never exchanged so much as a single word.
Milius' "Dillinger" is the John Dillinger movie to see if "contrived" is something you really like. It has very little to do with actual history, however.
"I don't deduce, I observe."