Smashing the Rackets

Year: 1938

Runtime: 69 mins

Language: English

Director: Lew Landers

DramaCrime

Former boxer and celebrated FBI agent Jim “Socker” Conway is reassigned for political reasons to a dead‑end position in the district attorney’s office. He becomes entangled with flamboyant debutante Letty Lane—Steve Lawrence’s mob‑linked girlfriend—and her sensible sister Susan. When a slot‑machine gang savagely assaults his friends Franz and Otto, Jim leverages his nominal post to launch a racket‑busting campaign, a move that soon places Letty in grave danger.

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