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Seton I. Miller (screenplay)
Martin Mooney (story) ...
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Release Date:
6 June 1936 (USA) more
Tagline:
WHO Rules The Rackets ? This picture puts the finger on the political higher-ups! more
Plot:
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner former detective Johnny Blake knocks him... more | add synopsis
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William Keighley directed the film with a firm and fresh efficiency… more (16 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Edward G. Robinson | ... | Johnny Blake |
 | Joan Blondell | ... | Lee Morgan |
| Barton MacLane | ... | Al Kruger |
 | Humphrey Bogart | ... | 'Bugs' Fenner |
| Frank McHugh | ... | Herman |
| Joe King | ... | Capt. Dan 'Mac' McLaren (as Joseph King) |
| Dick Purcell | ... | Ed Driscoll (as Richard Purcell) |
| George E. Stone | ... | Wires Kagel |
| Joseph Crehan | ... | Johnson (Grand Jury spokesman) |
| Henry O'Neill | ... | Ward Bryant, Newspaper Publisher |
| Henry Kolker | ... | Mr. Hollister |
| Gilbert Emery | ... | Mr. Thorndyke |
| Herbert Rawlinson | ... | Mr. Caldwell |
| Louise Beavers | ... | Nellie LaFleur |
| Norman Willis | ... | Louie Vinci |
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82 min
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Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #2155)
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"Bullets or Ballots" was so successful at the box office that it gave Edward G. Robinson the clout to negotiate a new contract with Warner Bros., which gave him rights of story and script approval and allowed him to make one movie per year for another studio. more
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Continuity: When "Bugs" Fenner enters the hotel and shoots Johnny Blake, he is seen firing a .45 Automatic. However, after Blake guns Fenner down and passes his corpse on the stairwell, the camera pans down to Fenner and there is a .38 Revolver in his hand. more
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Featured in Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Humphrey Bogart (1997) (TV) more
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The Lady In Red more
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Following his brutal portrayal in "The Petrified Forest," Bogart became a much more articulate and calculating killer in "Bullets or Ballots," a gangster thriller starring Edward G. Robinson as a crusading crime-buster, modeled after true-life cop Johnny Broderick, known as "the toughest cop on Broadway," who pretended to be thrown off the police force in order to infiltrate Bogart's gang and get the evidence to bring him to justice…
Bogart revealed no emotion whatever as he goes about his gun-happy chores of shooting a respected newspaperman as well as his partner-in-crime, Barton MacLane, in his characteristic double-cross…
The exciting finale found both Bogart and Robinson in a blazing showdown, an unusual ending for this period in film history, but one which Robinson had fought hard to retain...
William Keighley directed the film with a firm and fresh efficiency…