July 13 movie: Bullets or Ballots. Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell and a very young Humphrey Bogart star in this crime drama. Robinson is a cop who goes undercover and pretends to have turned into a gangster, to try and bring down organized crime. Bogart is the most villainous of the gangsters and Blondell is Robinson's love interest. It's not a great movie, still worth it to me because of the stars. Edward G. Robinson was such a good actor. Robert Osborne said that he initially refused to do this one because he was tired of being typecast in gangster movies. In his private life I've heard that Robinson was a very intelligent man who loved reading and collected art.
(I have absolutely no idea what the title means. I don't remember anything about ballots in the movie.)
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