Al Kruger — Bullets or Ballots Character Profile

About Al Kruger

A powerful crime boss who hires the disgraced detective Johnny Blake to help modernize his criminal enterprise. He trusts Blake's ideas, shifts the mob's focus to the numbers racket, but is eventually assassinated by Bugs Fenner in a power struggle.

Character Facts

Played by

Barton MacLane

Appears in

Bullets or Ballots (1936)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (3)

• Al Kruger — Professional Undercover Hire — Johnny Blake (Edward G. Robinson)

  Kruger employs Blake to modernize his criminal operations.

• Al Kruger — Power Crime Boss & Lieutenant — Bugs Fenner (Humphrey Bogart)

  Hierarchical relationship where Kruger commands Fenner's operations.

• Al Kruger — Professional Business Adoptee — Lee Morgan (Joan Blondell)

  Morgan's independent operation is absorbed into Kruger's syndicate.

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• Bugs Fenner (Humphrey Bogart)
• Mr. Hollister (Henry Kolker)
• Herman (Frank McHugh)
• Waiter (uncredited) (George Beranger)
• Ed Driscoll (Dick Purcell)
• Nellie LaFleur (Louise Beavers)
• Mr. Thorndyke (Gilbert Emery)
• Dan 'Mac' McLaren (Joe King)
• Louie Vinci (Norman Willis)
• Mr. Caldwell (Herbert Rawlinson)