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    Racket, The (1951)

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    A big national crime syndicate moves into town, partnering with local crime boss Nick Scanlon (Robert Ryan). There are two problems: 1) Nick is the violent type, preferring to do things the old-fashioned way instead of using the syndicate’s more persuasive methods. 2) Captain Thomas McQuigg (Robert Mitchum), the only honest police captain on the force and his loyal rookie patrolman, Johnson (William Talman).

    In grand movie tradition, McQuigg and Scanlon came from the same background but went in different directions

    McQuigg and Johnson take on the violent Nick and try to foil the syndicate’s plans to elect DA Mortimer Welsh (Ray Collins), the crooked prosecutor running for a crooked judgeship.

    Lizabeth Scott plays Irene Hayes, a nightclub singer mixed up with Nick’s clean younger brother Joe (Brett King).

    Howard Hughes’ RKO studio was not trying for a blockbuster here, just a good B movie suitable for twin bills. In that, they succeeded.

    Captain Thomas McQuigg
    Robert Mitchum
    Irene Hayes
    Lizabeth Scott
    Nick Scanlon
    Robert Ryan
    Officer Bob Johnson
    William Talman
    DA Mortimer X. Welsh
    Ray Collins
    Mary McQuigg
    Joyce Mackenzie
    Dave Ames
    Robert Hutton
    Lucy Johnson
    Virginia Huston
    Detective Sgt. Turk
    William Conrad
    Precinct Sgt. Jim Delaney
    Walter Sande
    Chief Investigator Harry Craig
    Les Tremayne
    R.G. Connolly
    Don Porter
    Booking Sgt. Sullivan
    Walter Baldwin
    Joe Scanlon
    Brett King
    Breeze Enright
    Richard Karlan

    Director
    John Cromwell

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