Smashing the Rackets (1938)
1h 9m
Running Time
August 8, 1938Release Date
Smashing the Rackets (1938)
1h 9m
Running Time
August 8, 1938Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Chester Morris
Jim 'Sock' Conway
Frances Mercer
Susan 'Pat' Lane
Rita Johnson
Letty Lane
Bruce Cabot
Steve Lawrence
Edward Pawley
Chin Martin
Joe De Stefani
Franz
Donald Douglas
Harry Spaulding
Kay Sutton
Peggy
Ben Welden
Whitey Clark
Eddie Acuff
Joe - Hoodlum
Paul Fix
Maxie
George Irving
District Attorney Edward Greer
Lew Landers
Director
Scotty Beckett
Otto, Franz's Son
Forrest Davis
Writer
Brooks Benedict
Court Clerk
Lionel Houser
Writer
Stanley Blystone
Policeman
B.P. Fineman
Producer
Nicholas Musuraca
Cinematographer
Tom Chatterton
Grand Juryman
Jimmy Conlin
Witness
Harry Marker
Editor
Edith Craig
Flo Fisher
Mike Donovan
Bailiff
Jimmie Dundee
Fuller - Henchman
Al Ferguson
Detective
Byron Foulger
Alverson - Chemist
Robert Frazer
Weather Man
Bud Geary
Detective
George Hackathorne
Detective
Kenneth Harlan
Angry Businessman
Eddie Hart
Ed Dooley
Howard Hickman
James J. Carew
Al Hill
Strong Arm Man
Max Hoffman Jr.
1st Protection Racket Thug
Cecil Kellaway
Barrett
Rita La Roy
Reluctant Witness
Mike Lally
2nd Protection Racket Thug
Edward LeSaint
Judge #2
Carl M. Leviness
Assistant Attorney
George Lloyd
Big Mike Leonard
Rollo Lloyd
Sam Schwartz - Butcher
Tom London
Dixon - Detective
Mary MacLaren
Nurse
George Meeker
District Attorney Aide
Victor Metzetti
Smokey - Henchman
Walter Miller
Mac
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Smashing the Rackets is a 1938 American drama film directed by Lew Landers, written by Lionel Houser, and starring Chester Morris, Frances Mercer, Rita Johnson, Bruce Cabot and Edward Pawley. It was released on August 19, 1938, by RKO Pictures.