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Thomas Meighan (left), Marie Prevost and Louis Wolheim.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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The Racket
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / 7646 feet
Directed by Lewis Milestone
Cast: Thomas Meighan [Captain McQuigg], Marie Prevost [Helen Hayes], Louis Wolheim [Nick Scarsi], George E. Stone [Joe Scarsi], John Darrow [Ames], ‘Skeets’ Gallagher [Miller], Lee Moran [Pratt], Lucien Prival [Chick], Tony Marlo [chauffeur], Henry Sedley [Corcan], Sam de Grasse [district attorney], Burr McIntosh [old man], G. Pat Collins [Officer Johnson]
The Caddo Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [A Paramount Picture]. / Produced by [?] Howard R. Hughes (Howard Houghes)? Scenario by Harry Behn and Del Andrews, from the adaptation by Bartlett Cormack of the play The Racket by Bartlett Cormack. Cinematography by Tony Gaudio. Film editor, Tom Miranda. Intertitles written by Eddie Adams. Presented by Howard R. Hughes (Howard Hughes). / Premiered 30 June 1928 in New York, New York. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.
Drama: Crime.
Survival status: Print exists in the University of Nevada Las Vegas Film Department film archive (Howard Hughes collection).
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Criminals - Law: District attorneys - Police: Policemen
Listing updated: 22 January 2023.
References: Bondanella-Hollywood pp. 181, 182; Jewell-RKO p. 255; Parish-Gangster pp. 2, 325-326, 327 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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