Keyword: racketeering

The Big Shakedown

6.2

1934

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Racketeers flood the market with counterfeit cosmetics and drugs, causing some tragedies.

State Police

6

1938

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The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.

Easy Money

6.1

1936

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Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorneys staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. He gets a job with an insurance company, and assures the company president he will get the goods on the gang or die in the attempt. At the company offices, he meets Carol Carter and she, believing he is a shyster (possibly redundant) lawyer in the employ of the racketeers gives him as little help as possible. Dan visits his brother Eddie, who is mixed up with the gang and tries to make him break away. Eddie is belligerent but finally, because of the pressure brought by Dan and his wife Tonia, agrees to go straight. The gang, led by Duke Trotti, fears he will squeal and they kill him, plus they make his death look like an accident and plan to collect on it. Dan is closing in on the gang when Carol, who is now his assistant, comes up with some conclusive evidence, but Duke has plans to get rid of her before she can give the information to Dan.

70,000 Witnesses

4.5

1932

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College football player (Phillips Holmes)is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother(Lew Cody).He refuses, but they player is doped anyway,and collapses and dies. A Detective (David Landau) has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.

Bullets or Ballots

7.1

1936

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When a crusader against rackets is murdered, a grand jury battles the rackets by promoting McLaren to be in charge of the cleanup. He fires NYPD Detective Blake, who punches him and joins the racket.