The Racket

The plot is very close to the original play and the 1928 movie. Racketeer and mobster Nick Scanlon has managed to buy several of the local government and law-enforcement officials of a large midwestern American city. However, he can't seem to touch the incorruptible police captain Tom McQuigg, who refuses all attempts at bribery. The city's prosecuting attorney, Welsh, and a state police detective, Turk, are crooked and make McQuigg's job as an honest officer nearly impossible. Then Higgins, a corrupted deputy prosecutor, falls victim to a mob hit.

MPAA Rating:	NR
Genre:	Crime, Drama, Film Noir, Thriller
Country:	United States
Produced By:	Edmund Grainger
Directed By:	John Cromwell, Nicholas Ray, Sherman Todd, Tay Garnett, Mel Ferrer
Written By:	W.R. Burnett, Bartlett Cormack, William Wister Haines
Cast:	Al Murphy, John Daheim, Robert Hutton, Robert Ryan, Mike Lally, William Talman, Tito Vuolo, Don Beddoe, Herbert Lytton, Max Wagner, Ronald Lee, Joey Ray, Charles Sherlock, Milburn Stone, Eric Alden, Harriet Matthews, Jack Gargan, Howard Petrie, Don Dillaway, Thomas Martin, Ray Collins, Lizabeth Scott, Richard Reeves, Richard Karlan, Robert Bice, Jack Shea, Kate Belmont, Dick Gordon, Pat Flaherty, Walter Baldwin, Hazel Keener, Les Tremayne, Bret Hamilton, Harry Lauter, George Sherwood, Joyce Mackenzie, Herb Vigran, Miles Shepard, Brett King, Gregg Barton, William Forrest, Curtis Jarrett, Barry Brooks, Howland Chamberlain, Art Dupuis, Don Porter, Jayne Hazard, Frank Marlowe, John McGuire, Robert Mitchum, Duke Taylor, Philo McCullough, Allen Mathews, William Conrad, Walter Reed, William J. O'Brien, Ralph Peters, Bud Wolfe, Matthew Boulton, Virginia Huston, Eddie Parker, Stephen Roberts, Jane Easton, Sally Yarnell, Howard Joslin, Ralph Montgomery, Walter Sande
In Theaters:	Sep 01, 2009
Runtime:	1 hour 28 minutes
Production:	RKO Radio Pictures
Available On:	Vudu
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