The Racket (1928)

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Directed by

Lewis Milestone

Starring (View all)

Thomas Meighan
Captain James McQuigg

Louis Wolheim
Nick Scarsi

Marie Prevost
Helen Hayes

G. Pat Collins
Patrolman Johnson

Henry Sedley
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George E. Stone
Joe Scarsi

Sam De Grasse
District Attorney Welch

Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Miller

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Bartlett Cormack

Del Andrews
(scenario)

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In defiance of a warning, a bootleg gang transports liquor and is stopped by the police. Through the intervention of a powerful politician who wants the votes controlled by the gang, Nick Scarsi, the leader, is freed. Later, Scarsi is caught murdering a patrolman. McQuigg, a police captain with a long-standing grudge against Scarsi, captures him and kills him when he tries to escape.

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"Nominated: Outstanding Production The first gangster film ever to be nominated for Best Picture, and the plot is very much the definition of a perfectly fine, serviceable film. Definitely not what I'd call Best Picture material. Watching it really makes you think that this film probably should have been made a year later as a talkie, because the film's way too over-reliant on the spoken word to be a silent picture. This effectively kills the pacing, and makes many scenes take twice as long "