- HD 1080
- Runtime: 69m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Lew Landers
- Stars: Chester Morris, Frances Mercer, Bruce Cabot, Rita Johnson, Edward Pawley
- keywords: gangster, fbi
- Production_studio: RKO Radio Pictures
- The Smashing the Rackets is featured in the top rankings of 1938
- #54 in Top Drama Movies of 1938
- #23 in Top Crime Movies of 1938
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...