Guns Don't Argue

Guns Don't Argue (1957)

and dead men don't talk!

The actions of various criminals such as Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde and Baby Face Nelson are reenacted in this film.

Date of release
1957-09-01
TMDB
4.5 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Crime
Director
Richard C. Kahn, Bill Karn

Casting

Interesting facts

Guns Don't Argue is a 1957 low-budget feature film about the early achievements of the FBI in defeating the most notorious criminals of the 1930s. The film involves dramatizations of the crimes and the eventual demise of various gangsters, told with a moralistic narrative.

Production

Guns Don't Argue consists of footage compiled from three episodes of the 1952 television series Gangbusters, which was based on the Gang Busters radio program. The franchise was the source of the Gang Busters serial film in 1942 starring Kent Taylor and Gang Busters in 1955, which was also composed of excerpts from the television series.

The film is a revisionist docudrama, portraying the war on gangsters from the 1920s and 1930s from an FBI point of view. Most notable is the portrayal of the deaths of Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger. The scenes show each firing the first shot and having ample time to surrender, when in fact they were shot in ambushes by police and federal agents. Another inaccuracy is the misidentification of FBI agent Raymond J.

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