Rubber Racketeers (1942)
1h 7m
Running Time
June 26, 1942Release Date
Plot.
Racketeer Gillin is paroled from prison and immediately goes to work trying to make an illegal buck from America's war effort. With rationing in effect the black market tire business is booming. Gillen's mob sets up car lots around town where they peddle stolen tires and "new" tires milled in the gangster's factories from cheap faulty materials. People begin to die in crashes as the defective tires fail. Bill Barry leads his fellow defense plant workers on a crusade to uncover the source of the black market rubber and bring the guilty to justice. Although clearly intended to warn the public about black market tire smuggling, Rubber Racketeers holds it own as a saga of mobsters versus an irate public.
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Cast & Crew.
Ricardo Cortez
Gilin
Rochelle Hudson
Nikki
William Henry
Bill Barry
Barbara Read
Mary Dale
Harold Young
Director
Dick Rich
Mule
Dewey Robinson
Larkin
Henry Blankfort
Writer
Sam Edwards
Freddy Dale
Maurice King
Producer
Kam Tong
Tom
L. William O'Connell
Cinematographer
Milburn Stone
Angel
Jack Dennis
Editor
John Abbott
Dumbo
Pat Gleason
Curley
Details.
Wiki.
Rubber Racketeers is a 1942 American crime film directed by Harold Young and starring Ricardo Cortez and Rochelle Hudson.
The film was inspired by tire rationing.