John Singleton

Director John Singleton joins Robert Osborne as Guest Programmer, introducing Lassie Come Home, Meet John Doe, High Noon, Gunga Din and Psycho, at 8pm EDT Tuesday, September 30th.
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Posted: 8/27/2008

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Length: 02:27
Posted: 12/19/2008

Like most boys growing up in small towns, John was a bit mischievous in his youth, but he was also well-liked by the other boys and a good baseball player. After quitting school in 1920, John had a number of jobs and even joined the Navy, from which he quickly deserted. Soon after marrying a 16-year-old girl named Beryl Hovious, John got drunk with Ed Singleton, an older boy with a criminal record, and the two of them hit elderly grocer Frank Morgan over the head trying to rob him of his money. John's father, a deacon at the local church, told John that telling the truth is always best. Bad advice. He did--and the judge gave him an extremely harsh sentence--10 to 20 years in jail. Dillinger spent the next nine lonely years in prison, half at Indiana's Pendleton Reformatory and half at the State Prison in Michigan City--Indiana's "Big House". Here Dillinger was imprisoned with hardened and professional criminals. He became good frineds with bank robbers in particular, and they taught hi
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Length: 44:40
Posted: 5/18/2009

Illegal Tender (2007) -- Interview: John Singleton "On what kind of film this is"
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Posted: 3/7/2009