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Melvin Horace Purvis, Jr. (Timmonsville, 24 ottobre 1903 – Florence, 29 febbraio 1960) è stato un avvocato e poliziotto statunitense. Soprannominato "Little Mel" (Piccolo Mel) a causa della sua bassa statura [1] , catturò più nemici pubblici di qualsiasi altro agente dell'FBI nella storia [2] , arrestando noti fuorilegge come Baby Face Nelson , Pretty Boy Floyd e John Dillinger .
Melvin Purvis (* 24. Oktober 1903 in Timmonsville, South Carolina; † 29. Februar 1960 in Florence, South Carolina) war operativer Mitarbeiter der Strafverfolgungsbehörde FBI in den Vereinigten Staaten Anfang der 1930er Jahre. Bekannt wurde er vor allem durch seine Jagd auf die Bande um John Dillinger. Bis heute gilt Purvis als derjenige Staatsbeamte, dem es gelang, die meisten Staatsfeinde ...
The story of Melvin Purvis, the once-iconic G-man and public hero destroyed not by villains but by the jealousy of his boss, J Edgar Hoover By the end of 1934 Melvin Purvis was, after President Roosevelt, the most famous man in America. Just thirty-one years old, he presided over the FBI's remarkable sweep of the great Public Enemies of the American Depression. America finally had its hero in ...
Melvin Purvis: G-Man is a 1974 American TV movie about Melvin Purvis. It is a spin-off of Dillinger (directed by John Milius, co-author of the teleplay for this movie) and was followed in 1975 by The Kansas City Massacre , also directed by Dan Curtis and starring Dale Robertson as Purvis.
Alston Purvis is Melvin's only surviving son. With the benefit of a unique family archive of documents, new testimony from colleagues and friends of Melvin Purvis and witnesses to the events of 1934, he has produced a grippingly authentic new telling of the gangster era, seen from the perspective of the pursuers. By finally setting the record ...
Melvin Purvis Jr. wed Marie Rosanne Willcox in 1937, and their union produced three sons: Melvin Horace Purvis III, Alston Purvis, and a son mistakenly named Janie Purvis, who should be correctly identified. As a prominent law enforcement official in the South, Melvin Purvis made a name for himself at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). After receiving his law degree, he joined the FBI ...
Public Enemies (deutsch: Staatsfeinde) ist ein US -amerikanischer Spielfilm von Michael Mann. Der auf wahren Begebenheiten basierende Film ist eine Adaptation des Buches Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34 von Bryan Burrough. Der Film feierte in Deutschland am 6. August 2009 und in Österreich am 7.
