Smashing the Rackets
Smashing the Rackets
Release: 1938-08-08
·Runtime: 69m
·★ 5.5
Drama
Crime
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...
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
RKO Radio Pictures
Cast
Pierre Watkin
as John Nelson Davis
Leo White
as Juror
Chester Morris
as Jim "Socker" Conway
Paul Fix
as Maxie
Edith Craig
as Flo Fisher
C. Montague Shaw
as Grand Juryman
Libby Taylor
as Duchess
Frances Mercer
as Susan 'Pat' Lane
Rita Johnson
as Leticia "Letty" Lane
Stanley Blystone
as Policeman
Carl M. Leviness
as Assistant Attorney
Solly Ward
as Dry Cleaner
George Irving
as District Attorney Edward Greer
Scotty Beckett
as Otto, Franz's Son
Donald Douglas
as Harry Spaulding
Jimmy Conlin
as Witness
Howard Hickman
as James J. Carew
Cecil Kellaway
as Barrett
Edward LeSaint
as Judge #2
Rollo Lloyd
as Sam Schwartz - Butcher
Byron Foulger
as Alverson - Chemist
Robert Frazer
as Weather Man
Rita La Roy
as Reluctant Witness
Tom London
as Dixon - Detective
George Meeker
as District Attorney Aide
Theodore von Eltz
as Howard Ellis
Gayne Whitman
as News Broadcaster
Kenneth Harlan
as Angry Businessman
Brooks Benedict
as Court Clerk
Bruce Cabot
as Steve Lawrence
Edward Pawley
as Chin Martin
Eddie Acuff
as Joe - Hoodlum
Al Ferguson
as Detective
Joe De Stefani
as Franz
Tom Chatterton
as Grand Juryman
Bud Geary
as Detective
George Hackathorne
as Detective
Walter Miller
as Mac
Walter Sande
as Hospital Interne
Frank M. Thomas
as Judge Wend
Charles Trowbridge
as Grand Juryman
Kay Sutton
as Peggy
Ben Welden
as Whitey Clark
Mike Lally
as 2nd Protection Racket Thug
George Lloyd
as Big Mike Leonard
Al Hill
as Strong Arm Man
Max Hoffman Jr.
as 1st Protection Racket Thug
Mary MacLaren
as Nurse
Horace Murphy
as Doorman
