Film Snail

5.7

Gang Bullets

NR·1938·63m

Action

Thriller

Crime

Drama

Action

Thriller

Crime

Drama

Summary

A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst.

Cast

Anne Nagel

Patricia Wayne

Robert Kent

John Carter

Charles Trowbridge

Dexter Wayne

Morgan Wallace

'Big Bill' Anderson

J. Farrell MacDonald

Chief Reardon

John T. Murray

Horace Meade

Joseph Crehan

Wallace

Benny Bartlett

Billy Jones

John Merton

Red Hampton

Roger Williams

George Stanley

John Dilson

Capt. Brown

Donald Kerr

Joe Armstrong

Frank Hall Crane

Mr. William Jones (uncredited)

Kernan Cripps

Police Stenographer (uncredited)

Edward Hearn

Detective Craig (uncredited)

Isabel La Mal

Mrs. Jones (uncredited)

William Lally

Court Clerk (uncredited)

Frank LaRue

Grand Jury Foreman (uncredited)

Stanley Mack

Al (uncredited)

Tom McGuire

Police Officer Clancy (uncredited)

Frank Nelson

Radio Announcer (uncredited)

Jack O'Shea

Henchman (uncredited)

Hal Price

Dry Cleaners Owner (uncredited)

Cully Richards

Comic Bit (uncredited)

Jack C. Smith

Bailiff (uncredited)

Martin Spellman

Young Boy (uncredited)

Harry Strang

Tom (uncredited)

William Worthington

Judge (uncredited)

Duke York

Collins (uncredited)

Carleton Young

Hank Newell (uncredited)

Crew

Director

Lambert Hillyer

Screenplay

John T. Neville

Reviews

Geronimo1967

January 6, 2024

B-movie regular Charles Trowbridge is the District Attorney "Wayne" who is constantly playing a cat and mouse game with savvy crook "Big Bill" (Morgan Wallace). Thanks to the latter man's army of lawyers and henchmen, "Wayne" usually comes off empty-handed until he alights on a cunning plan to use his deputy "Carter" (Robert Kent) who is engaged to his daughter "Patricia" (Anna Nagel) to set up the mother of all sting operations that might just expose their quarry to charges even he can't argue away. The production and the acting are both a bit basic and there's way too much dialogue as the scenarios stray into the faintly ridiculous, but the last ten minutes are quite enjoyably strung together using an old grenade and loads of brass neck. Standard fayre you'll never remember, but it passes an hour ok.