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...
Rated
NR
Year
1938
Country
US
Language
English
Release date
8 August 1938
TMDB
6.7 (3)
CineVerse
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Ratings
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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
Scotty Beckett
Otto, Franz's Son
Brooks Benedict
Court Clerk
Stanley Blystone
Policeman
Tom Chatterton
Grand Juryman
Jimmy Conlin
Witness
Edith Craig
Flo Fisher
M
Mike Donovan
Bailiff
J
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
E
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
V
Victor Metzetti
Smokey - Henchman
Walter Miller
Mac
E
Edmund Mortimer
Angry Businessman
Horace Murphy
Doorman
M
Max Rose
Detective
Walter Sande
Hospital Interne
C. Montague Shaw
Grand Juryman
Libby Taylor
Duchess
Frank M. Thomas
Judge Wend
Charles Trowbridge
Grand Juryman
Theodore von Eltz
Howard Ellis
Solly Ward
Dry Cleaner
Pierre Watkin
John Nelson Davis
Leo White
Juror
Gayne Whitman
News Broadcaster
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