There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

GANG BULLETS is a low rent mobster story from cheapie studio Monogram Pictures, notorious for making endless B-movies on a shoestring. This film's about the efforts of an entire city's law and justice departments to bring a notorious criminal to book. Morgan Wallace plays said criminal, 'Big Bill' Anderson, with relish and certainly dominates the film with his larger-than-life persona. I loved the sly joke when he tells the cops that his tax records are up to date so they can't bring him to book.With a running time clocking in at just over an hour, GANG BULLETS is never boring for a moment and the plot constantly twists and turns as first the cops and then the criminals get the upper hand. The usual clichés of the gangster genre are played out here, including protection rackets, stings, and shoot-outs, and they're all handled with surprising aplomb given the paucity of the budget. The film lacks any big-name actors for recognition but works anyway despite this.

1938's "Gang Bullets" shows that Monogram could occasionally compete with Warners' crime dramas, though on a noticeably smaller budget and less action. At the same time Boris Karloff began his 'Mr. Wong' series, the studio's modest ambitions show in this gritty expose of crime boss Morgan Wallace, against crusading District Attorney Charles Trowbridge, with top billing awarded former Warners starlet Anne Nagel, best remembered for her work at Universal in "Black Friday" and "Man Made Monster" (one of her last roles came in Monogram's Charlie Chan entry "The Trap," wearing a fetching bathing suit). After playing the surprise killer in "Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo," Robert Kent was back on the right side of the law, soon starring opposite Bela Lugosi in the 1939 serial "The Phantom Creeps." Morgan Wallace usually played villains, as he soon would in "Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation," before his memorable encounter with W. C. Fields in "My Little Chickadee."

No matter what I think of this movie overall, I hate that the film has an awful cliché. Apparently, there's a mom in this film that is a moron--a victim and a stupid one at that. You see, at one point a family is being held captive by killers. When the young son jumps on of the thugs, the thug's gun falls to the floor---and the mother just stands there!!! The tough thug and a 12 year-old are tumbling on the floor and the gun is only inches from the hateful old broad--and she just stands there!!! I hate this cliché and hate women who behave like walking brain stems! Or, perhaps she just hates the kid and hoping the guy kills him! The film is a crime versus the District Attorney film. Big Bill Anderson is run out of one town, but in the next he decides to create his criminal empire and is so smart that the D.A. can't prosecute him. Despite some excellent efforts, the case just can't be made against the man. And, for his trouble, the local newspaper calls for his resignation. When he tries something very desperate and a little crazy, the D.A. finds that not only doesn't he have a case against Anderson but he himself might be heading to prison! Unfortunately, the film ends with a really, really bad scene--one that requires the criminals to be even dumber than the lady earlier in the film!!Overall, this is a semi-competent B-movie made by the king of Poverty Row studios, Monogram. It's all very watchable but also not all that inspired. For Monogram, it's a good film. For a decent studio (which it wasn't), it would be sub-par. Some poor writing here and there (such as the incident described at the beginning and the bomb at the end) make this one a time-passer at best and not much more.

I won't say this is one of the worst movies I've ever seen, because it isn't. But boy, it sure is one of the dumbest. Though the story has a fairly good premise and an interesting hook with the 'Junius' letters, it all crumbles under third grade level writing and if it's possible, even worse performances by the lead characters. But no sense in dwelling on the low points as if they were negatives, one of the bright spots of films like this is the ability to make fun of the genuine goofy stuff presented.Like this one - how is it that when three of Big Bill's henchmen escape from the cops with the one named Al critically shot, they make their getaway one whole city block over from where they started? Huh? Besides that, radio reports carry news of the escape in real time while it's happening! Then, henchman Red admires the way Al stays one step ahead of the cops by croaking - this is truly inspired stuff!I have to admit though, the film had me fooled with the identity of 'Junius', I thought it was Assistant D.A. Carter (Robert Kent) trying to further discredit his boss Dexter Wayne (Charles Trowbridge). In the finale though, with Wayne holding the grenade about to blow when he let go, I was fully expecting Superman to bust through a wall to make the save. Instead, Carter directs his boss to throw the grenade out the window. Hey, wouldn't it have been a good idea to OPEN THE WINDOW FIRST??!!!Monogram Pictures was well known for it's shoestring cheap budgets and low production values, but this film makes the Charlie Chan series of the same era look like "L.A. Confidential". Still, as I hope I've explained, you can have a good time with this one if you're in the right frame of mind. Watch especially for henchman Armstrong's (Donald Kerr) scene when he makes his 'confession' to the police, it's a great preview for roles that would be made famous in the Nineties by Joe Pesci.