Guns Don't Argue

"Guns Don't Argue" is a composite of three re-edited episodes from the 1952 TV series "Gangbusters". The film was released to theatres in 1957 as a feature film which was produced by William Faris, directed by Bill Karn & Richard Kahn.

The film's taglines were "... and dead mean don't talk" and "The Factual story of the short but vicious lives of America's public enemies." A similar film, "Gang Busters" (1954), was also originally based on the dramatic radio program first titled "G-Men", which premiered on July 20, 1935. The title was changed to "Gang Busters" on January 15, 1936.

The film is considered by some to be a revisionist style docu-drama which portrays the war on crime of the 1920s and 1930s notably in the favor of the Federal agents involved. A very pro-Hoover style film with narration of the criminal element in an over emphasized way. Though the film does show a counterpoint to the often romanticized lives of outlaws and criminals, it does so too far in the extreme. Where the real history gets muddled in the 1950s 'value' system.

Most notable is the portrayal of the deaths of Bonnie and Clyde as well as John Dillinger. The scenes show each firing off the first shot, and having ample time to "give themselves up". When in fact they were gunned down in an ambush by the police and Federal agents.

Discussed in the film are John Dillinger, Ma Barker, Alvin Karpis, Fred Barker, Homer Van Meter, Bonnie Parker, Clyde Barrow, and Pretty-Boy Floyd.

Cast

According to [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048108/fullcredits IMDB] the "cast" is listed as:
* Jim Davis as Police Captain Stewart/Narrator
* Lyle Talbot as Dr. William Guellfe, Plastic Surgeon
* Lash La Rue as 'Doc' Barker
* Richard Crane as Homer Van Meter
* Myron Healey as John Dillinger
* Ann Morriss as Mildred Jaunce, The Lady in Red
* Sam Edwards as Fred Barker
* Paul Dubov as Alvin Karpis
* Baynes Barron as Clyde Barrow
* Tamar Cooper as Bonnie Parker
* Regina Gleason as Hope
* Knobby Schaeffer as Adam Richetti
* Jeanne Carmen as Paula
* Aline Towne as Shirley, Girl with Karpis
* Doug Wilson as Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
* Robert Kendall as Baby Face Nelson
* Jean Harvey as 'Ma' Barker
* Ralph Moody as Arthur 'Pa' Barker
* Coulter Irwin as FBI Agent Ross Baxter
* Jeanne Bates as Mrs. Ross Baxter
* Sydney Mason as Lieutenant Bill Baxter
* Bill Baldwin Sr as Special Agent Fenton/Narrator
* Captain Frank Hamer as Texas Ranger
* Sam Flint as FBI Chief
* Florence Lake as Bessie, the Landlady
* Russ Whitney as Verne Miller
* Helen Van Tuyl as Texas Lady Governor
* Hank Patterson as Scully Wass (Farmer)
* Robert Bice as FBI Agent Tyler
* Percy Helton as Pool Room Proprietor
* Scott Douglas as FBI Agent Clifton
* William Boyett as FBI Agent on Pier
* Ray Boyle as Raymond Hamilton
* Texas Joe Foster as Tony Milento
* Joseph J. Greene as Arthur Troser
* Darlene Fields as Connie, Dillinger's Girl
* Dick Foote as Prison Trustee
* Billy Griffith as Bucher
* Robert Vanselow as John Hamilton
* Glenn Holden as Dillinger's Jail Guard
* Harold 'Tommy' Hart as Garageman
* Smoki Whitfield as The Bootblack

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048108/ IMDB]
* [http://www.jeannecarmen.com/index.cfm?id=91343&fuseaction=browse&pageid=145 Jeanne Carmen images from the film]