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Smashing the Rackets

Smashing the Rackets 5.5

1938-08-08

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...

Genre: Drama

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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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Joe De Stefani

Franz



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Donald Douglas

Harry Spaulding



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Kay Sutton

Peggy



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Ben Welden

Whitey Clark



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Paul Fix

Maxie



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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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Stanley Blystone

Policeman



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Tom Chatterton

Grand Juryman



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Jimmy Conlin

Witness



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Edith Craig

Flo Fisher



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Mike Donovan

Bailiff



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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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George Hackathorne

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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Cecil Kellaway

Barrett



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Rita La Roy

Reluctant Witness



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Mike Lally

2nd Protection Racket Thug



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Edward LeSaint

Judge #2



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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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Mary MacLaren

Nurse



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George Meeker

District Attorney Aide



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Victor Metzetti

Smokey - Henchman



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Walter Miller

Mac



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Edmund Mortimer

Angry Businessman



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Horace Murphy

Doorman



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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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Libby Taylor

Duchess



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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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Leo White

Juror



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Gayne Whitman

News Broadcaster