Fresh
A good story, plus good direction, plus a great cast and minus dumb supervision, is responsible for another great underworld film.
Variety Staff, Variety
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The Racket
Overview
A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
Director and cast
- Lewis Milestone Director
- Thomas Meighan as Police Captain James McQuigg
- Louis Wolheim as Nick Scarsi
- Marie Prevost as Helen Hayes
- G. Pat Collins as Patrolman Johnson (as Pat Collins)
- Henry Sedley as Spike Corcoran
- George E. Stone as Joe Scarsi (as George Stone)
- Sam De Grasse as District Attorney Welch
- Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher as Miller
- John Darrow Cast
- Lucien Prival Cast
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