AMUSEMENTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20504, 24 August 1936, Page 9

AMUSEMENTS

“BULLETS OR BALLOTS” RACKETEERING FILM AT MAJESTIC A new angie on the activities of America’s gangster world is shown in “Bullets or Ballots,” which opened at the Majestic Theatre on Saturday. Lavishly mounted, beautifully photographed and with a superlative cast including Joan Biondell, Humphrey Bogart, Barton Mac Lane and Frank McHugh, it is something new in screen entertainment. The picture opens with Edward Robinson as a former detective and heed of New York’s famous strong arm squad being relegated to a patrolman’s beat in the Bronx. He is finally discharged from the force, and apparently embittered, he joins the gang run by Mac Lane, as Kruger. MacLane’s trigger man is Humphrey Bogart, who plays "Buggs” Finner. One smashing scene follows another as Blake sacrifices his honour and the love of Joan Biondell, as Lee Morgan, to wrest from the underworld the secrets of the higher-ups who operate the rackets. Mac Lane surpasses his work ip “G-Mep.” Miss Biondell was never given a role more suited to her talents and beauty. The humour is furnished by Frank McHugh and his scenes are really funny.