Smashing the Rackets
- Original title
- Smashing the Rackets
- Year
- 1938
- Running time
- 69 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Lionel Houser. Article: Forrest Davis
- Cast
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- Chester Morris
- Frances Mercer
- Rita Johnson
- Bruce Cabot
- Edward Pawley
- Joe De Stefani
- Donald Douglas
- Kay Sutton
- Ben Welden
- Paul Fix
- Eddie Acuff
- George Irving
- Cecil Kellaway
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- Music
- Cinematography
Nicholas Musuraca (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Crime
- Synopsis
- 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...
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