Gang Busters (1955)

Myron Healey, Don C. Harvey, Sam Edwards, Frank Gerstle, Frank Richards ... see more  , Kate MacKenna , Rusty Wescoatt , William Justine , Allan Ray , William Fawcett , Charles Victor , Joyce Jameson , Ed Hinton , Robert Bice , Mike Ragan , Robert Carson , Myron Healy

Based on the radio series of the same name, Gang Busters was an episodic documentary-style tale of criminals brought to justice. Veteran screen baddie Myron Healey plays John Omar Pinson, a real-life ... read more criminal once rated Public Enemy #4. The film recounts the many prison breaks staged by Pinson, all of which resulted in his recapture. Gangbusters was comprised of three half-hour episodes from the Gangbusters TV series (53), stitched together into an ersatz feature film. This pastiche approach proved successful enough to spawn two subsequent films, again culled from Gang Busters TV footage: Guns Don't Argue (57) and Ma Barker's Killer Brood (60). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi