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Smashing the Rackets

55 %|Aug 8, 1938|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...

Featured Crew

Lew Landers
Director
Forrest Davis
Writer
Lionel Houser
Writer
Nicholas Musuraca
Director of Photography

Cast

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Chester Morris
Jim "Socker" Conway
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Frances Mercer
Susan 'Pat' Lane
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Bruce Cabot
Steve Lawrence
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Rita Johnson
Leticia "Letty" Lane
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Edward Pawley
Chin Martin
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Donald Douglas
Harry Spaulding
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Ben Welden
Whitey Clark
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Eddie Acuff
Joe - Hoodlum
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George Irving
District Attorney Edward Greer
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Scotty Beckett
Otto, Franz's Son
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Brooks Benedict
Court Clerk
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Tom Chatterton
Grand Juryman
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Edith Craig
Flo Fisher
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Jimmie Dundee
Fuller - Henchman
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Al Ferguson
Detective
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Byron Foulger
Alverson - Chemist
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Robert Frazer
Weather Man
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Bud Geary
Detective
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Kenneth Harlan
Angry Businessman
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Eddie Hart
Ed Dooley
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Howard Hickman
James J. Carew
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Al Hill
Strong Arm Man
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Max Hoffman Jr.
1st Protection Racket Thug
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Rita La Roy
Reluctant Witness
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Mike Lally
2nd Protection Racket Thug
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Carl M. Leviness
Assistant Attorney
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George Lloyd
Big Mike Leonard
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Rollo Lloyd
Sam Schwartz - Butcher
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Tom London
Dixon - Detective
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George Meeker
District Attorney Aide
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Victor Metzetti
Smokey - Henchman
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Edmund Mortimer
Angry Businessman
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Max Rose
Detective
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Walter Sande
Hospital Interne
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C. Montague Shaw
Grand Juryman
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Frank M. Thomas
Judge Wend
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Charles Trowbridge
Grand Juryman
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Theodore von Eltz
Howard Ellis
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Solly Ward
Dry Cleaner
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Pierre Watkin
John Nelson Davis
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Gayne Whitman
News Broadcaster