Smashing the Rackets
5.5
69 minutes
8/8/1938
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...
Cast List
Chester Morris
as Jim "Socker" Conway
Frances Mercer
as Susan 'Pat' Lane
Bruce Cabot
as Steve Lawrence
Rita Johnson
as Leticia "Letty" Lane
Edward Pawley
as Chin Martin
Joe De Stefani
as Franz
Donald Douglas
as Harry Spaulding
Kay Sutton
as Peggy
Ben Welden
as Whitey Clark
Paul Fix
as Maxie
Eddie Acuff
as Joe - Hoodlum
George Irving
as District Attorney Edward Greer
Scotty Beckett
as Otto, Franz's Son
Brooks Benedict
as Court Clerk
Stanley Blystone
as Policeman
Tom Chatterton
as Grand Juryman
Jimmy Conlin
as Witness
Edith Craig
as Flo Fisher
Mike Donovan
as Bailiff
Jimmie Dundee
as Fuller - Henchman
Al Ferguson
as Detective
Byron Foulger
as Alverson - Chemist
Robert Frazer
as Weather Man
Bud Geary
as Detective
George Hackathorne
as Detective
Kenneth Harlan
as Angry Businessman
Eddie Hart
as Ed Dooley
Howard Hickman
as James J. Carew
Al Hill
as Strong Arm Man
Max Hoffman Jr.
as 1st Protection Racket Thug
Cecil Kellaway
as Barrett
Rita La Roy
as Reluctant Witness
Mike Lally
as 2nd Protection Racket Thug
Edward LeSaint
as Judge #2
Carl M. Leviness
as Assistant Attorney
George Lloyd
as Big Mike Leonard
Rollo Lloyd
as Sam Schwartz - Butcher
Tom London
as Dixon - Detective
Mary MacLaren
as Nurse
George Meeker
as District Attorney Aide
Victor Metzetti
as Smokey - Henchman
Walter Miller
as Mac
Edmund Mortimer
as Angry Businessman
Horace Murphy
as Doorman
Max Rose
as Detective
Walter Sande
as Hospital Interne
C. Montague Shaw
as Grand Juryman
Libby Taylor
as Duchess
Frank M. Thomas
as Judge Wend
Charles Trowbridge
as Grand Juryman
Theodore von Eltz
as Howard Ellis
Solly Ward
as Dry Cleaner
Pierre Watkin
as John Nelson Davis
Leo White
as Juror
Gayne Whitman
as News Broadcaster