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Smashing the Rackets

Smashing the Rackets

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 8, 1938

Runtime

1h 9m

Genres

Drama, Crime

User Score

55%

Original Title

Smashing the Rackets

Production Companies

RKO Radio Pictures

Director

Lew Landers

Description

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...