cult film freak: EDWARD G. ROBINSON IN 'A BULLET FOR JOEY' WITH AUDREY TOTTER

Written by James M. Tate / 6/11/2025 / No comments / cold war , edward g. robinson , fifties , film noir or melodrama , george dolenz , george raft , peter hansen , peter van eyck , sandy sanders , thriller

EDWARD G. ROBINSON IN 'A BULLET FOR JOEY' WITH AUDREY TOTTER

6/11/2025 | No comment

Audrey Totter in A BULLET FOR JOEY Year: 1955 Rating: ***1/2

Two groundbreaking crime genre actors from the 1930's team up in a movie that could have only come out in the middle-1950's since A BULLET FOR JOEY, while sounding like a gangster flick concerning crooked union bosses, is a bonafide Cold War Thriller, or in this case, a Cold Noir Thriller...

With Edward G. Robinson billed first but hardly the main character as an inspector/investigator in charge of trying to stop bigwig criminal George Raft from entering America through Canada, where he had flown to from Europe, where he was in hiding because of...

George Raft and Edward G. Robinson in A BULLET FOR JOEY

Well it's never entirely clear since JOEY, named after Raft's character... in cahoots with communist agents... basically takes backseat to semi-fatale Audrey Totter, hired to snare important scientist George Dolenz, who she falls for...

And there's a second seduction, but in reverse... involving William Bryant coaxing the cute-while-trying-to-be-homely Toni Gerry... as legendary Robinson and Raft are basically watching, along with the audience, a multi-tier potboiler that Mrs. Totter could have carried on her own.

From A BULLET FOR JOEY

Edward G. Robinson and George Raft in A BULLET FOR JOEY

Edward G. Robinson in A BULLET FOR JOEY

Toni Gerry and William Bryant in A BULLET FOR JOEY

Audrey Totter and George Raft in A BULLET FOR JOEY

Audrey Totter and George Dolenz in A BULLET FOR JOEY

George Dolenz and Edward G. Robinson in A BULLET FOR JOEY

Toni Gerry in A BULLET FOR JOEY

Peter van Eyck in A BULLET FOR JOEY

George Raft in A BULLET FOR JOEY

Peter Hansen and Edward G. Robinson in A BULLET FOR JOEY

Sandy Sanders and Edward G. Robinson in A BULLET FOR JOEY

Edward G. Robinson in A BULLET FOR JOEY

George Raft in A BULLET FOR JOEY

George Dolenz in A BULLET FOR JOEY

George Raft in A BULLET FOR JOEY

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