Smashing the Rackets

Smashing the Rackets

69 mins | Drama, Crime | Aug. 8, 1938

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...

Smashing the Rackets

69 mins | Drama, Crime | Aug. 8, 1938

Smashing the Rackets
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...
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers RKO Radio Pictures
Original title Smashing the Rackets
Directors Lew Landers
Writers Forrest Davis, Lionel Houser

Cast

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