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Smashing the Rackets (1938)
Directed by Lew Landers
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…
Rated NR | Length 69 minutes
Actors
Chester Morris | Frances Mercer | Bruce Cabot | Rita Johnson | Edward Pawley | Joe De Stefani | Donald Douglas | Kay Sutton | Ben Welden | Paul Fix | Eddie Acuff | George Irving | Scotty Beckett | Brooks Benedict | Stanley Blystone | Tom Chatterton | Jimmy Conlin | Edith Craig | Mike Donovan | Jimmie Dundee | Al Ferguson | Byron Foulger | Robert Frazer | Bud Geary | George Hackathorne | Kenneth Harlan | Eddie Hart | Howard C. Hickman | Al Hill | Max Hoffman Jr. | Cecil Kellaway | Rita La Roy | Mike Lally | Edward LeSaint | Carl M. Leviness | George Lloyd | Rollo Lloyd | Tom London | Mary MacLaren | George Meeker | Victor Metzetti | Walter Miller | Edmund Mortimer | Horace Murphy | Max Rose | Walter Sande | C. Montague Shaw | Libby Taylor | Frank M. Thomas | Charles Trowbridge | Theodore von Eltz | Solly Ward | Pierre Watkin | Leo White | Gayne Whitman