apparently re cut episode from the gangbusters tv show on the big screen . while this be frequently do in the 50 and 60 because people do not have a tv or a color tv and producer want an increased return on their investment ( big screen ticket sale or if it go to the small screen resale of a series that isn not in syndication ) and the result be usually less then the sum of their part . the only time i have ever see it work be where multi part story be put together ( ala rocky jones or man from uncle ) or in the case of horror anthology ( the veil and 13 demon street ) . here the effect be to have story of american criminal in the 20 and 30 ( dillinger and pretty boy floyd and bonnie and clyde and etc ) inter cut with each other a a narrator talk about how the fbi hunt them down . it a weird concoction that doesn not quite work because it clear that there be thing here that do not belong together . more than once i look at the tv oddly because thing do not seem right . in fairness i would not describe the cheapness of the production since this be what early tv ( and the series ) be like . it not bad and but it not very good either . to be perfectly honest the episode of the series that i have see work well a single episode where be not expect as much . give the choice i would rent dvd of the show instead of this movie .