Smashing the Rackets
1938-08-08 | 69 minutes
Plot Summary
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...
Cast
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Chester MorrisJim "Socker" Conway
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Frances MercerSusan 'Pat' Lane
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Bruce CabotSteve Lawrence
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Rita JohnsonLeticia "Letty" Lane
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Edward PawleyChin Martin
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Joe De StefaniFranz
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Donald DouglasHarry Spaulding
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Kay SuttonPeggy
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Ben WeldenWhitey Clark
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Paul FixMaxie
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Eddie AcuffJoe - Hoodlum
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George IrvingDistrict Attorney Edward Greer
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Scotty BeckettOtto, Franz's Son
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Brooks BenedictCourt Clerk
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Stanley BlystonePoliceman
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Tom ChattertonGrand Juryman
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Jimmy ConlinWitness
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Edith CraigFlo Fisher