Gang Smashers (1938)
IT BLASTS THE LID OFF HARLEM RACKETS!
An undercover police woman poses as a nighclub entertainer to catch the main man behind the racketeers going on around Harlem. Meanwhile two men are falling for her.
- Date of release
- 1938-12-30
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 57m
- Genres
- Crime, Music
- Director
- Leo C. Popkin
Casting
- Nina Mae McKinney — Laura Jackson
- Laurence Criner — Gat Dalton
- Monte Hawley — Lefty
- Mantan Moreland — Gloomy
- Reginald Fenderson — Nick
- Edward Thompson — Doyle
- Vernon McCalla — Police Captain
- Charles Hawkins — Gopher
- Everett Brown — Police Lieutenant
- Lester Wilkins — 2nd Police Officer
- Neva Peoples — Cararet Entertainer
- Arthur Ray — Bowers
Interesting facts
Gang Smashers, also released as Gun Moll, is an American film released in 1938. It features an African American cast. Leo C. Popkin directed the Million Dollar Productions film from a screenplay by Ralph Cooper. The University of South Carolina libraries have an 8-page pressbook for the film. Nina Mae McKinney stars in the film a thriller about the Harlem underworld and racketeering.
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