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Parole Racket

Parole Racket

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 11, 1937

Runtime

1h 2m

Genres

Crime, Romance

Original Title

Parole Racket

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

Director

Charles C. Coleman

Description

Following a long investigation, Police Detective-Lieutenant Anthony "Tony" Roberts becomes convinced that there is some powerful unknown-master-mind leader behind the gangs of crooks who are terrorizing the city, and it has something to do with paroled convicts. He sets up a scheme with his supervisor to have himself shamed by being demoted to a patrolman and then caught in the act of receiving bribe-money from a racketeer. He is convicted and sent to prison, and the manner in which his parole is arranged leads him, dangerously, to the secret-head of the gang.