The Racket(Movie, 1928)

Name: The Racket
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1928
Duration: T01:24:00
Rating: 3.2

1h 24min | Genres: Crime, Drama

Rating: 3.2/5 (with 12 votes)

The Racket is a 1928 American silent crime drama film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim, and George E. Stone. The film was produced by Howard Hughes, written by Bartlett Cormack and Tom Miranda, and was distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was adapted from Cormack's 1927 Broadway play The Racket. ()

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Awards & Nominations for The Racket

nominated for: Academy Award for Best Picture

About The Racket

A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: Chicago (Illinois)

Made by: Paramount Pictures, The Caddo Company

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: No Language (XX)

Translated into 6 languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), Hungarian (HU), Russian (RU), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date GB: 11/01/1928

Cast: Louis Wolheim, Marie Prevost, Thomas Meighan, G. Pat Collins, George E. Stone, Sam De Grasse, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Lee Moran, Walter Brennan, Lewis Milestone, Harry Wilson

Director: Lewis Milestone

Producer: Howard Hughes

Screenwriter: Bartlett Cormack, Tom Miranda

Film Editor: Eddie Adams

Director of Photography: Tony Gaudio

Composer: Robert Israel

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"A Lei dos Fortes"

Keywords: reporter, bootlegger, silent film

Color: Black & White (B/W)

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