BULLETS OR BALLOTS - DVD

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• Release Year: 1936
• Genre: Drama, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: 'They rule by the fear of their guns. They must be stopped by the power of your ballots.' They refers to Bugs Fenner and other mobsters whose illicit rackets will be smashed to smithereens by undercover cop Johnny Blake. When Warner Bros.' Depression-era gangster movies began to draw protests, the studio reinvigorated the genre with stories emphasizing law enforcers instead of lawbreakers. The swift, sturdy Bullets or Ballots reflects that, with Edward G. Robinson (as Blake) siding with the good guys for the first time in a gangland saga. Humphrey Bogart plays the short-fused Fenner. And Joan Blondell and Louise Beavers, in an unusual story element for the times, are thriving numbers operators whose grift is usurped by the mob.
• Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane, Humphrey Bogart, Frank McHugh, Joe King, Dick Purcell, George E. Stone, Joseph Crehan, Henry O'Neill, Henry Kolker, Gilbert Emery, Herbert Rawlinson, Louise Beavers, Norman Willis, Sol Gorss, Herman Marks, Russell Beach, Wilda Bennett, George Beranger, Tom Brower, Raymond Brown, Frank Bruno, Eddie Butler, Vance Carroll, Eddy Chandler, Bing Connolly, Joe Connors, Hal Craig, Virginia Dabney, Don Downen, Ralph Dunn, Jay Eaton, Bill Elliott, Frank Faylen, Jerry Fletcher, Jack Gardner, Jack A. Goodrich, Eddie Graham, Harrison Greene, Wallace Gregory, Edna Mae Harris, Eddie Hart, Lew Harvey, Ben Hendricks Jr., Al Hill, Stuart Holmes, John Lester Johnson, Milton Kibbee, Guy Kingsford, Alma Lloyd, George Lloyd, Shirley Lloyd, Alice Lyndon, Jerry Madden, Frank Marlowe, Rosalind Marquis, Henry Martin, Larry McGrath, Howard M. Mitchell, Carlyle Moore Jr., Frances Morris, Anne Nagel, Garry Owen, William Pawley, James Rafferty, Ralph Remley, Addison Richards, Ernie Ripfer, Bert Ross, Dick Rush, Cy Schindell, Harold Schlickenmayer, Charles Sherlock, Eddie Shubert, Edwin Stanley, John Tyrrell, Victoria Vinton, Max Wagner, Harry Watson, Freddy Welsh, Huey White, Leo White, Lottie Williams, Tom Wilson, Jack Wise, William Keighley, Seton I. Miller, Martin Mooney
• Director: William Keighley
• Runtime: 1:22
• Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, The Vitaphone Corporation, First National Pictures
• Media Format: Movie