Rubber Racketeers
Rubber Racketeers
Release: 1942-06-26
·Runtime: 67m
·★ 4.3
Drama
Crime
Racketeer Gillin is paroled from prison and immediately goes to work trying to make an illegal buck from America's war effort. With rationing in effect the black market tire business is booming. Gillen's mob sets up car lots around town where they peddle stolen tires and "new" tires milled in the gangster's factories from cheap faulty materials. People begin to die in crashes as the defective tires fail. Bill Barry leads his fellow defense plant workers on a crusade to uncover the source of the black market rubber and bring the guilty to justice. Although clearly intended to warn the public about black market tire smuggling, Rubber Racketeers holds it own as a saga of mobsters versus an irate public.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Monogram Pictures
King Brothers Productions
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Ricardo Cortez
as Gilin
John Abbott
as Dumbo
Alex Callam
as Butch
Dick Hogan
as Bert
William Henry
as Bill Barry (as Bill Henry)
Barbara Read
as Mary Dale
Dewey Robinson
as Larkin
Kam Tong
as Tom
Pat Gleason
as Curley
Rochelle Hudson
as Nikki
Dick Rich
as Mule
Sam Edwards
as Freddy Dale
Milburn Stone
as Angel
Alan Hale Jr.
as Red
Marjorie Manners
as Lila
