Smashing the Rackets
Lew Landers1938-08-08
5.5
69 min
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...
Cast
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Chester Morris | Jim "Socker" Conway | Unowned |
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Frances Mercer | Susan 'Pat' Lane | Unowned |
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Bruce Cabot | Steve Lawrence | Unowned |
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Rita Johnson | Leticia "Letty" Lane | Unowned |
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Edward Pawley | Chin Martin | Unowned |
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Joe De Stefani | Franz | Unowned |
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Donald Douglas | Harry Spaulding | Unowned |
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Kay Sutton | Peggy | Unowned |
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Ben Welden | Whitey Clark | Unowned |
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Paul Fix | Maxie | Unowned |
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Eddie Acuff | Joe - Hoodlum | Unowned |
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George Irving | District Attorney Edward Greer | Unowned |
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Scotty Beckett | Otto, Franz's Son | Unowned |
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Brooks Benedict | Court Clerk | Unowned |
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Stanley Blystone | Policeman | Unowned |
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Tom Chatterton | Grand Juryman | Unowned |
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Jimmy Conlin | Witness | Unowned |
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Edith Craig | Flo Fisher | Unowned |
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Mike Donovan | Bailiff | Unowned |
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Jimmie Dundee | Fuller - Henchman | Unowned |
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Al Ferguson | Detective | Unowned |
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Byron Foulger | Alverson - Chemist | Unowned |
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Robert Frazer | Weather Man | Unowned |
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Bud Geary | Detective | Unowned |
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George Hackathorne | Detective | Unowned |
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Kenneth Harlan | Angry Businessman | Unowned |
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Eddie Hart | Ed Dooley | Unowned |
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Howard Hickman | James J. Carew | Unowned |
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Al Hill | Strong Arm Man | Unowned |
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Max Hoffman Jr. | 1st Protection Racket Thug | Unowned |
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Cecil Kellaway | Barrett | Unowned |
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Rita La Roy | Reluctant Witness | Unowned |
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Mike Lally | 2nd Protection Racket Thug | Unowned |
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Edward LeSaint | Judge #2 | Unowned |
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Carl M. Leviness | Assistant Attorney | Unowned |
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George Lloyd | Big Mike Leonard | Unowned |
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Rollo Lloyd | Sam Schwartz - Butcher | Unowned |
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Tom London | Dixon - Detective | Unowned |
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Mary MacLaren | Nurse | Unowned |
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George Meeker | District Attorney Aide | Unowned |
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Victor Metzetti | Smokey - Henchman | Unowned |
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Walter Miller | Mac | Unowned |
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Edmund Mortimer | Angry Businessman | Unowned |
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Horace Murphy | Doorman | Unowned |
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Max Rose | Detective | Unowned |
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Walter Sande | Hospital Interne | Unowned |
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C. Montague Shaw | Grand Juryman | Unowned |
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Libby Taylor | Duchess | Unowned |
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Frank M. Thomas | Judge Wend | Unowned |
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Charles Trowbridge | Grand Juryman | Unowned |
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Theodore von Eltz | Howard Ellis | Unowned |
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Solly Ward | Dry Cleaner | Unowned |
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Pierre Watkin | John Nelson Davis | Unowned |
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Leo White | Juror | Unowned |
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Gayne Whitman | News Broadcaster | Unowned |