Paper Bullets

1941
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1h 12m

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Alan Ladd, Jack La Rue, and Joan Woodbury in Paper Bullets (1941)

Circumstances force naive Dorothy Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.Circumstances force naive Dorothy Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.Circumstances force naive Dorothy Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.

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This film's earliest documented telecast occurred Monday 26 March 1945 on New York City's pioneer television station WNBT (Channel 1). In Washington DC it first aired Sunday 30 May 1948 on WMAL (Channel 7), in Baltimore Friday 27 August 1948 on WBAL (Channel 11), in Detroit Wednesday 20 October 1948 on WXYZ (Channel 7), in Cincinnati Saturday 13 November 1948 on WLW-T (Channel 4), in Albuquerque Saturday 29 January 1949 on KOB (Channel 4), and in Atlanta Thursday 1 September 1949 on WAGA (Channel 5).

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Opening credits are shown against changing "Ballot---General Election" pages.

Connections
Featured in The Irish Mob: Owney Madden: Duke of the Westside/John 'Red' Hamilton and the Dillinger Gang (2008)

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I Know, I Know
by Vick Knight (as Vic Knight), Johnny Lange and Lew Porter
Performed by Linda Ware

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Uneven Early Ladd Effort - Paper Bullets

Paper bullets refers to ballots by voters during an election. In this case, there is a "reform" movement which promises to bring even more corruption to an already corrupt political system.

Alan Ladd plays an undercover cop who does not even appear in the film for the first twenty minutes. It is really just a supporting role. The real star of the film is Joan Woodbury, an orphan who makes a lot of bad choices in life early on, and then compounds them with even more bad choices as she becomes an adult.

John Archer is her goody-goody childhood friend who eventually leads her down the right path, and Jack La Rue as Mickey Roman is another childhood friend who offers her a chance at big money, but at a moral price. Her first sleazy boyfriend is her real downfall. This is a soap that is terribly uneven; it is good sometimes, and at other times, it is terrible; see for yourself.