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In a large American city, a national syndicate, led by an unknown someone coined "the old man", has infiltrated the crime scene, co-opting well known but little seen local crime boss Nick Scanlon, who still acts largely on his own accord as the muscle. A crime commission has been instituted to deal with the problem.
In The Racket (1951), a pretty nifty cop picture co-starring Mitchum and Robert Ryan, Mitchum forever looks like he needs a big cup of black coffee. But he casually burns a hole in the screen. Mitchum, in a change of pace, plays an honest metropolitan cop whose criminal nemesis (Robert Ryan) is trying to gain control of the city government.
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The Racket (1951) is a tough-guy crooked cop corporate crime thriller noir which pits cop against mobster in a classic tale of urban violence, corporate criminality and corruption which may in fact go all the way to the to the top — a great new flavour of wickedness for the 1950s, as the more fantastical and psychological elements of personal co...
Overview. The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick. John Cromwell. Director. W.R. Burnett. Screenplay. William Wister Haines. Screenplay. Full Cast & Crew.
In this Prohibition-era silent film, James McQuigg (Thomas Meighan) is an honest police captain in a city ruled by gangsters and corrupt politicians. McQuigg tries repeatedly to arrest Nick Scarsi...
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A remake of a 1928 silent film of the same name, and based on a stage play by Bartlett Cormack, John Cromwell’s The Racket features a noir-studded cast in a tale about one police captain fighting corruption in an unnamed midwestern city.
