Smashing the Rackets Trailer

Smashing the Rackets Trailer (1938)

08 August 1938 Drama, Crime 69 mins

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

Chester Morris

as Jim "Socker" Conway

Frances Mercer

as Susan 'Pat' Lane

Bruce Cabot

as Steve Lawrence

Rita Johnson

as Leticia "Letty" Lane

Edward Pawley

as Chin Martin

Donald Douglas

as Harry Spaulding

Kay Sutton

as Peggy

Ben Welden

as Whitey Clark

Paul Fix

as Maxie

Eddie Acuff

as Joe - Hoodlum

George Irving

as District Attorney Edward Greer

Scotty Beckett

as Otto, Franz's Son

Brooks Benedict

as Court Clerk

Stanley Blystone

as Policeman

Tom Chatterton

as Grand Juryman

Crew

Lew Landers

Director

Nicholas Musuraca

Nicholas Musuraca Director of Photography

International Releases Dates

United States 08 August 1938

Production Companies

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Smashing The Rackets: Jim "Sock" Conway-- former fighter former fed. Now benched by the political hacks infesting the DA's office Sock's ...

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