Smashing the Rackets

Aug 8, 1938

1h 9m

★ 5.5

Overview

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...

Genres

Drama

Crime

Production Companies

RKO Radio Pictures

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Cast

Jim "Socker" Conway

Chester Morris

Susan 'Pat' Lane

Frances Mercer

Steve Lawrence

Bruce Cabot

Leticia "Letty" Lane

Rita Johnson

Chin Martin

Edward Pawley

Franz

Joe De Stefani

Harry Spaulding

Donald Douglas

Peggy

Kay Sutton

Whitey Clark

Ben Welden

Maxie

Paul Fix

Joe - Hoodlum

Eddie Acuff

District Attorney Edward Greer

George Irving

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