Smashing the Rackets (1938)
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...
- Date of release
- 1938-08-08
- TMDB
- 6.7 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 9m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Director
- Lew Landers
Casting
- Chester Morris — Jim "Socker" Conway
- Frances Mercer — Susan 'Pat' Lane
- Bruce Cabot — Steve Lawrence
- Rita Johnson — Leticia "Letty" Lane
- Edward Pawley — Chin Martin
- Joe De Stefani — Franz
- Donald Douglas — Harry Spaulding
- Kay Sutton — Peggy
- Ben Welden — Whitey Clark
- Paul Fix — Maxie
- Eddie Acuff — Joe - Hoodlum
- George Irving — District Attorney Edward Greer
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