Smashing the Rackets (1938)

6.7/10 69 min Drama Crime

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...

Cast

Chester Morris

Jim "Socker" Conway

Frances Mercer

Susan 'Pat' Lane

Bruce Cabot

Steve Lawrence

Rita Johnson

Leticia "Letty" Lane

Edward Pawley

Chin Martin

Joe De Stefani

Franz

Donald Douglas

Harry Spaulding

Kay Sutton

Peggy

Ben Welden

Whitey Clark

Paul Fix

Maxie

Eddie Acuff

Joe - Hoodlum

George Irving

District Attorney Edward Greer

Scotty Beckett

Otto, Franz's Son

Brooks Benedict

Court Clerk

Stanley Blystone

Policeman

Tom Chatterton

Grand Juryman

Jimmy Conlin

Witness

Edith Craig

Flo Fisher

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