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