Smashing the Rackets
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Screenplay Lionel Houser Duration Language English | 6/10 IMDb Genre Crime, Drama Story by Forrest Davis Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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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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...
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Smashing the Rackets Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA
Smashing the Rackets IMDb Smashing the Rackets themoviedb.org
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