Smashing the Rackets

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Smashing the Rackets

Drama

Crime

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...

Date: 08/08/1938

Rating: 5.5

Cast: Chester Morris, Frances Mercer, Bruce Cabot, Rita Johnson, Edward Pawley, Joe De Stefani, Donald Douglas, Kay Sutton, Ben Welden, Paul Fix, Eddie Acuff, George Irving, Scotty Beckett, Brooks Benedict, Stanley Blystone, Tom Chatterton, Jimmy Conlin, Edith Craig, Mike Donovan, Jimmie Dundee, Al Ferguson, Byron Foulger, Robert Frazer, Bud Geary, George Hackathorne, Kenneth Harlan, Eddie Hart, Howard Hickman, Al Hill, Max Hoffman Jr., Cecil Kellaway, Rita La Roy, Mike Lally, Edward LeSaint, Carl M. Leviness, George Lloyd, Rollo Lloyd, Tom London, Mary MacLaren, George Meeker, Victor Metzetti, Walter Miller, Edmund Mortimer, Horace Murphy, Max Rose, Walter Sande, C. Montague Shaw, Libby Taylor, Frank M. Thomas, Charles Trowbridge, Theodore von Eltz, Solly Ward, Pierre Watkin, Leo White, Gayne Whitman

Chester Morris