Smashing the Rackets
Release Date: 1938-08-08
Overview: 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...
Rating: 5.5 / 10
Cast
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
Crew
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Lew Landers - Director
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Forrest Davis - Writer
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Lionel Houser - Writer
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Nicholas Musuraca - Director of Photography
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