Paper Bullets is a 1941 American crime thriller film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Joan Woodbury, Jack La Rue and Linda Ware.

Rita grows up to be a struggling single girl who lives with her best friend, singer Donna, and who has a drunken boyfriend, Harold De Witt, the son of a rich, powerful man, Clarence.

Mickey, meanwhile, asks Rita to return the letters in Harold's file which prove his guilt, but she has her plan for revenge and buys radio time to speak out against DeWitt's hypocrisy.

This wins her a meeting with Parrish and mobster Lou Wood, and after Rita negotiates a place for herself in the syndicate, she then visits DeWitt with photocopies of the letters.

Spurning DeWitt's offer of money, Rita forces him to use his political influence for the syndicate's benefit, prompting Jimmy to observe that Parrish is using votes, or "paper bullets", to take control.

When Mickey learns that the real Dugan is in prison, Jimmy is abducted by Parrish's men, and the ensuing pursuit by the police ends in an accident.

Joe persuades the newspapers to print the false information that Jimmy was killed in the crash, which devastates Donna, who has fallen in love with him.

[4] The Kozinsky Brothers knew Jack LaRue from the racetrack (they owned some horses) and liked his performance in A Farewell to Arms; he was cast in the lead.