1938
5.5 (2 votes)
1h 9m
Genres
Drama
Crime
Production Companies
RKO Radio Pictures
Smashing the Rackets
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...
Key Crew
Director: Lew Landers
Writer: Forrest Davis, Lionel Houser
Director of Photography: Nicholas Musuraca
