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Director
  
Screenplay
  
Lionel Houser

Duration
  

Language
  
English

6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Crime, Drama

Story by
  
Forrest Davis

Country
  
United States

Smashing the Rackets movie poster

Release date
  
August 19, 1938 (1938-08-19)

Based on
  
Smashing the Rackets by Forrest Davis

Writer
  
Forrest Davis (article), Lionel Houser

Cast
  
(Jim Conway),
Frances Mercer
(Susan 'Pat' Lane), (Steve Lawrence), (Letty Lane), (Chin Martin),
Joe De Stefani
(Franz)

Similar movies
  
Related Lew Landers movies

Smashing the Rackets is a 1938 American drama film directed by Lew Landers and written by Lionel Houser. The film stars Chester Morris, Frances Mercer, Rita Johnson, Bruce Cabot and Edward Pawley. The film was released on August 19, 1938, by RKO Pictures.

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Plot

Jim 'Sock' 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...

Cast

  • Chester Morris as Jim 'Sock' Conway
  • Frances Mercer as Susan 'Pat' Lane
  • Rita Johnson as Letty Lane
  • Bruce Cabot as Steve Lawrence
  • Edward Pawley as Chin Martin
  • Joe De Stefani as Franz
  • Don Douglas as Harry Spaulding
  • Kay Sutton as Peggy
  • Ben Welden as Whitey Clark
  • Paul Fix as Maxie
  • Eddie Acuff as Joe
  • George Irving as District Attorney Edward Greer
  • References

    Smashing the Rackets Wikipedia
    Smashing the Rackets IMDb Smashing the Rackets themoviedb.org


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