Love and Bullets
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59% Critic Match

Love and Bullets

Somebody's bound to catch the kiss of death!

5.9 / 10 1979 1h 43mPG English
CrimeDramaAction

Storyline

Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goons are threatening Jackie's life, the FBI moves in to protect her, hoping that she'll have incriminating evidence. Veteran agent Charlie Congers is assigned to watch over Jackie, and while it soon becomes apparent that she knows almost nothing about Bomposa that would be of any use to the FBI, he falls in love with her. Bomposa decides it would be more convenient to have Jackie out of the way, ordering her to be executed. Bomposa's henchmen slip through FBI security and murder her, but now they have to answer the angry and vengeful Congers.

Cast & Crew

Charles Bronson

Charles Bronson

Charlie Congers

Lead
Jill Ireland

Jill Ireland

Jackie Pruit

Rod Steiger

Rod Steiger

Joe Bomposa

Henry Silva

Henry Silva

Vittorio Farroni

Strother Martin

Strother Martin

Louis Monk

Bradford Dillman

Bradford Dillman

Jim Brickman

Michael V. Gazzo

Michael V. Gazzo

Lobo

Paul Koslo

Paul Koslo

Huntz

What People Are Saying

3.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Stuart Rosenberg's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
3.0
Every frame feels alive. Love and Bullets is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker