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The Racket

1951, Movie, NR, 88 mins

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Howard Hughes updated Bartlett Cormack's popular play to tie it in with the then-controversial Kefauver crime hearings, and the result is a hard-hitting crime drama. Robert Mitchum plays an honest police captain who battles to wrest control of the city's government from crime boss Robert Ryan. Director John Cromwell does a fine job of keeping up a lightning pace and elicits a great, sinister performance from Ryan. Read the complete review for The Racket
Year: 1951
Rated NR

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Cast
Robert Mitchum: Capt. McQuigg
Lizabeth Scott: Irene
Robert Ryan: Scanlon
William Talman: Johnson
Ray Collins: Welch
Joyce MacKenzie: Mary McQuigg

 

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Posted: 8/1/2008
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