Smashing the Rackets

Smashing the Rackets (1938)


  • Genre: Drama, Crime
  • Release Date: 1938-08-08
  • User Rating: 5.5/10 from 2 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 9min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Lew Landers
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Summary

Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...

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  • Chester Morris

    as Jim "Socker" Conway

  • Frances Mercer

    as Susan 'Pat' Lane

  • Bruce Cabot

    as Steve Lawrence

  • Rita Johnson

    as Leticia "Letty" Lane

  • Edward Pawley

    as Chin Martin

  • Joe De Stefani

    as Franz

  • Donald Douglas

    as Harry Spaulding

  • Kay Sutton

    as Peggy

  • Ben Welden

    as Whitey Clark

  • Paul Fix

    as Maxie

  • Eddie Acuff

    as Joe - Hoodlum

  • George Irving

    as District Attorney Edward Greer

  • Scotty Beckett

    as Otto, Franz's Son

  • Brooks Benedict

    as Court Clerk

  • Stanley Blystone

    as Policeman

  • Tom Chatterton

    as Grand Juryman

  • Jimmy Conlin

    as Witness

  • Edith Craig

    as Flo Fisher

  • Mike Donovan

    as Bailiff

  • Jimmie Dundee

    as Fuller - Henchman

  • Al Ferguson

    as Detective

  • Byron Foulger

    as Alverson - Chemist

  • Robert Frazer

    as Weather Man

  • Bud Geary

    as Detective

  • George Hackathorne

    as Detective

  • Kenneth Harlan

    as Angry Businessman

  • Eddie Hart

    as Ed Dooley

  • Howard Hickman

    as James J. Carew

  • Al Hill

    as Strong Arm Man

  • Max Hoffman Jr.

    as 1st Protection Racket Thug

  • Cecil Kellaway

    as Barrett

  • Rita La Roy

    as Reluctant Witness

  • Mike Lally

    as 2nd Protection Racket Thug

  • Edward LeSaint

    as Judge #2

  • Carl M. Leviness

    as Assistant Attorney

  • George Lloyd

    as Big Mike Leonard

  • Rollo Lloyd

    as Sam Schwartz - Butcher

  • Tom London

    as Dixon - Detective

  • Mary MacLaren

    as Nurse

  • George Meeker

    as District Attorney Aide

  • Victor Metzetti

    as Smokey - Henchman

  • Walter Miller

    as Mac

  • Edmund Mortimer

    as Angry Businessman

  • Horace Murphy

    as Doorman

  • Max Rose

    as Detective

  • Walter Sande

    as Hospital Interne

  • C. Montague Shaw

    as Grand Juryman

  • Libby Taylor

    as Duchess

  • Frank M. Thomas

    as Judge Wend

  • Charles Trowbridge

    as Grand Juryman

  • Theodore von Eltz

    as Howard Ellis

  • Solly Ward

    as Dry Cleaner

  • Pierre Watkin

    as John Nelson Davis

  • Leo White

    as Juror

  • Gayne Whitman

    as News Broadcaster
Directing Lew Landers Director
Writing Forrest Davis Writer
Writing Lionel Houser Writer
Camera Nicholas Musuraca Director of Photography

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