**SPOILERS** Nowhere up to the standards you would have expected with actors Edward G. Robinson and George Raft as Montreal Police Inspector Raoul LeDuc and kicked out of the the country American hoodlum Joey Victor in the movie. The film "A Bullet for Joey" has to do with Joey Victor being hired by this shadowy rare book collector Eric Hartman, Peter Van Eyke, to do some work for him in kidnapping absent minded and a bit naive,in all the fuss about him in the movie, physics professor Dr. Carl Macklin, George Dolenz.
Prof. Marklin has invented this gizmo that's supposed to revolutionize atomic physic and it's Hartman's bosses back in the Kremlin who want to get their hands on it. This is only a guess on my part in that not once in the entire movie are we told or made to understand just whom Hartman, whom we know for sure isn't a member of the Canadian Mounties, is actually working for!
It's only later when Joey finally realizes that Hartman isn't a good guy, or hoodlum like himself, but a slime ball working for Evil Empire the Soviet Union that he change his mind and becomes for the first time in his criminal life patriotic! That's after Joey's boys just about helped Commie master spy Hartman almost get everything, like Prof. Hartman and his gizmo, he was after! Joey also shows his good side by exonerating his old girl friend who wants nothing at all to do with him Joyce Geary, Andry Totter, in a letter to the Montreal Police Department. The letter tells them that she knows nothing of what Joey and his boys,from Chicago Miami and L.A, were up to in kidnapping Prof. Macklin. Even though Joey forced, by paying the almost dead broke woman off, Joyce to get in good with the not all that interested in women Macklin, the only thing that he's interested in is his physics calculations, so she can make it possible for Joey and his friends to kidnap him! That's by Macklin dropping his guard as well as his pants when, in him being romantically involved with Joyce, Joey and the boys grab him.
***SPOILERS*** Somewhat touching final with Joey getting it, like the title of the movie suggests, in the gut from a dying Hartman whom he gunned down in the final moments of the film. That not only prevented Hartman from getting Prof. Macklin back to the USSR where his services in nuclear physics would be greatly appreciated but made Joey a hero in laying his life down for his country when it really needed him.
Prof. Marklin has invented this gizmo that's supposed to revolutionize atomic physic and it's Hartman's bosses back in the Kremlin who want to get their hands on it. This is only a guess on my part in that not once in the entire movie are we told or made to understand just whom Hartman, whom we know for sure isn't a member of the Canadian Mounties, is actually working for!
It's only later when Joey finally realizes that Hartman isn't a good guy, or hoodlum like himself, but a slime ball working for Evil Empire the Soviet Union that he change his mind and becomes for the first time in his criminal life patriotic! That's after Joey's boys just about helped Commie master spy Hartman almost get everything, like Prof. Hartman and his gizmo, he was after! Joey also shows his good side by exonerating his old girl friend who wants nothing at all to do with him Joyce Geary, Andry Totter, in a letter to the Montreal Police Department. The letter tells them that she knows nothing of what Joey and his boys,from Chicago Miami and L.A, were up to in kidnapping Prof. Macklin. Even though Joey forced, by paying the almost dead broke woman off, Joyce to get in good with the not all that interested in women Macklin, the only thing that he's interested in is his physics calculations, so she can make it possible for Joey and his friends to kidnap him! That's by Macklin dropping his guard as well as his pants when, in him being romantically involved with Joyce, Joey and the boys grab him.
***SPOILERS*** Somewhat touching final with Joey getting it, like the title of the movie suggests, in the gut from a dying Hartman whom he gunned down in the final moments of the film. That not only prevented Hartman from getting Prof. Macklin back to the USSR where his services in nuclear physics would be greatly appreciated but made Joey a hero in laying his life down for his country when it really needed him.