Bullets or Ballots

Bullets or Ballots is a 1936 gangster 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.

Detective Johnny Blake Edward G. Robinson 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 Barton MacLane hires him in an attempt to gain fresh ideas about sidestepping the law and expanding his criminal empire. Blake soon gains Krugers trust and rises through the ranks of the criminal organization, much to the distaste of Bugs Fenner Humphrey Bogart, who believes Blake to be a police informer.Bullets or Ballots was adapted as a onehour radio play on the April 17, 1939 broadcast of Lux Radio Theater with Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor and Humphrey Bogart. ........

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