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Smashing the Rackets

1938 • 1h9m Drama, Crime

Rating

5.5/10

Popularity

1

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...

Details

Director

Lew Landers

Screenplay

Forrest Davis

Lionel Houser

Cast

Chester Morris

Frances Mercer

Bruce Cabot

Release date

8/8/1938

Status

Released

Origin country

US

Vote count

2