Bullets or Ballots
Bullets or Ballots is a 1936 American crime thriller film starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane, and Humphrey Bogart. Robinson plays a police detective who infiltrates a crime gang. This is the first of several films featuring both Robinson and Bogart.
Plot
Detective Johnny Blake is a New York City cop who has made his reputation by cracking down on racketeers. When Blake gets kicked off the force, a powerful crime boss named Al Kruger hires him in an attempt to gain fresh ideas about sidestepping the law and expanding his criminal empire. Masterminding the mob are three very powerful bankers, who are only known by the crime boss. Blake soon gains Kruger's trust and rises through the ranks of the criminal organization, much to the distaste of Bugs Fenner, who believes Blake to be a police informer.
More details
| author | Seton I. Miller |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | New York City |
| director | Edward G. Robinson William Keighley |
| editor | Jack Killifer |
| events | organized crime |
| genre | crime drama thriller |
| keywords | arrest crack crime boss crime ring crime syndicate criminal empire criminal organization force gun battle kill meet numbers racket wound |
| musicBy | Bernhard Kaun |
| producer | Louis F. Edelman |
| productionCompany | First National Pictures |
| publisher | Warner Bros. |
| theme | gangster |