Bullets or Ballots (1936)

Edward G. Robinson is a long time veteran of his city's police force, who agrees to a plot by the new police commissioner to be summarily dismissed from his position, so that he can cosy up to a crime lord who likes him (Barton MacLane) in the hopes of bringing down a city wide racket and exposing its mysterious backers. Joan Blondell is Robinson's love interest while Humphrey Bogart is gangster who is suspicious of him. An unremarkable gangster film with a paint by numbers plot, still a good representative of the genera. Fair