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Jimmy Vestvood aspires to be a cool cop like his childhood idol, Steve McQueen in the movie Bullitt, but soon discovers that the best job he can get is as a security guard at a Persian grocery store. Through a series of comically fateful events, Jimmy's naiveté is exploited when a corrupt arms dealer hires him as a private investigator.
So-called "true crime" magazines were highly popular in the 1930s and the movie G Men starring James Cagney, released in the spring of 1935, had proven to be a big hit. Producer-director Phillips H. Lord thought there was a place on radio for a show of the same type.
Gang Busters was very successful in its original release, and was re-released in 1949 by Film Classics, Inc. Authors Jim Harmon and Donald F. Glut described Gang Busters as a "well made and interesting serial.", [ 1 ] and William C. Cline considered the serial one of Universal's best [ 2 ] and that Professor Mortis is one of the best characters ...
Like Gangbusters is the first studio album by British new wave band JoBoxers, first released in 1983 [1] and featuring five chart singles. The first single " Boxerbeat ", the group's anthem, worked its way up the UK charts while the group were the opening act on the Madness 'Rise and Fall' tour, [ 2 ] reaching number three.
Gang Busters, a 1955 crime film "Gang Busters" (Tiny Toons episode), a Tiny Toon episode; Gangbuster (DC Comics), a DC Comics character; Gangbuster, a 1977 crime film; Gangbusters (role-playing game), a role-playing game; Gangbusters, a 1952 American television series based on the radio series; Gangbusters, a 1982 Commodore 64 strategy game
Critic Douglas Pratt gave the film a positive review in his 2004 book Doug Pratt's DVD: Movies, Television, Music, Art, Adult, and More!. He writes, "the 1997 film's first half is outright excellent. Dolph Lundgren is the guy who carries the briefcase for the president that has all the nuclear war codes in it. Villains come in like gangbusters."
Like the radio program Gang Busters, the TV Gangbusters was created by Phillips Lord. Content of episodes was factually based and included interviews with professionals in law enforcement. [ 1 ] Lord narrated the episodes, [ 3 ] which used a "semi-documentary style" [ 3 ] to dramatize actual cases taken from files of law-enforcement agencies. [ 2 ]
The Gang Busters radio show was an enormous long-running success with 1,008 radio broadcasts over twenty-one years from July 20, 1935, to November 20, 1957. It also spawned a long-running DC Comics comic book of the same name, and was the basis for a motion picture with the same title as well as a half-hour weekly television series in 1952 ...