Love and Bullets

Love and Bullets

103 mins | Drama, Crime, Action | April 5, 1979

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.

Love and Bullets

103 mins | Drama, Crime, Action | April 5, 1979

Love and Bullets
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.
IMDb rating 5.6
Producers ITC, Sir Lew Grade (ITC)
Original title Love and Bullets
Directors Stuart Rosenberg, John Huston
Writers John Crowther, John Melson, Wendell Mayes

Cast

Charles Bronson

as Charlie Congers

Jill Ireland

as Jackie Pruit

Rod Steiger

as Joe Bomposa

Henry Silva

as Vittorio Farroni

Strother Martin

as Louis Monk

Bradford Dillman

as Jim Brickman

Paul Koslo

as Huntz

Val Avery

as Caruso

Sam Chew Jr.

as Sam Cook

Billy Gray

as Officer Durant

Jerome Thor

as Senator

Joseph Roman

as Coroner

Albert Salmi

as Andy Minton

John Hallam

as Cerutti

Sidney Kean

as Machoni

Richard Graydon

as Antonio

Robin Clarke

as FBI Agent George

Andy Romano

as FBI Agent Marty

Lorraine Chase

as Vittorio's Girlfriend

Raynold Gideon

as Counsel

James Keane

as Doctor

J. Kenneth Campbell

as Newscaster (uncredited)

Alex Donnelley

as Phoenix Diner Waitress (uncredited)

Charles Lucia

as Phoenix Police Detective (uncredited)

Earl W. Smith

as Telephone Repairman (uncredited)