Cry Danger (1951), U Turn (1997), Special Agent (1935), Whipsaw (1935), Roadblock (1951), The Gangster (1947), The Lady and the Mob (1939), Smart Woman (1948) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Racketeer movies.
Storyline: Rocky Mulloy, back in town after serving 5 years of a life sentence for armed robbery, hopes to clear his friend Danny Morgan who's still in prison for the same crime. It won't be easy. Even the witness who cleared Rocky thinks he's guilty; Danny's glamorous wife Nancy, living in a sleazy trailer court, seems lukewarm about getting Danny back; cynical cop Gus Cobb just wants to stir things up in hopes that the missing "hot" $100,000 will surface. Plenty of tough talk, night scenes, deceptive dames and double crosses in this typical film noir.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: ex-convict, wife, police detective, racketeer, dark, gripping, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Bobby's car breaks down in the desert while on the run from some of the bookies who have already taken two of his fingers, he becomes trapped in the nearby small town where the people are stranger than anyone he's encountered. After becoming involved with a (unbeknownst to him) young married woman, her husband hires Bobby to kill her. Later, she hires Bobby to kill the husband.
Plot Keywords: racketeer, love interest, sexy woman, husband, murderer, engaging, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Alexander Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>, A. Nonymous
Plot Keywords: racketeer, government agent, accountant, reporter, district attorney, love interest, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Vivian, Ed and Harry steal jewels in Paris. In New York government agent McBride accompanies Vivian riding across the country with the loot. She falls in love with him and gives up crime; he finds the stash and arrests her. Rival crooks Doc and Steve, who had already stolen the stolen jewels once, attempt to take them once again.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: racketeer, partner, moll, federal agent, mobster, henchman, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An L.A. insurance detective starts to get involved with a girl he is increasingly attracted to, even though he sees her as a chiseller. She makes it clear that her tastes are too expensive for him, so he sets about getting a lot of money quickly if illegally. Perhaps too late, she starts to find that she is content with him just the way he is.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: insurance investigator, partner, beautiful woman, racketeer, gangster, bank robber, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Shubunka is the self-made head of the rackets in the sleazy boardwalk community of Neptune City, a low-rent version of Coney Island. He has become infatuated with a sultry nightclub chanteuse and lavishes her with gifts and attention, spending money on her that might better go to maintaining his hold on his operation. His obsession with her, as well as his pride, clouds his judgment as Cornell, a much more ruthless hoodlum, moves in on Shubunka's territory, bribes and threatens his associates, and compromises his operation. As if in a Greek tragedy, the petty gangster's weaknesses conspire to cause his downfall.—duke1029@aol.com
Plot Keywords: racketeer, gangster, showgirl, shopkeeper, gambling addict, cashier, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Society-woman Hattie Leonard organizes her own band of 'gang-busters' when she discovers a garment she sent to the dry-cleaners had been taxed twenty-five-cents to pay for gang 'protection.' She sends to New York City for a reformed gangster she had befriended, Frankie O'Fallon, and he hires the manpower needed from the usual Columbia hoods. Her gang hi-jacks the racketeers, recovers the merchant's money and returns it to them. Lila Thorne, engaged to Hattie' son, Fred, throws in with her future mother-in-law when she sees the old lady is fighting for the American principle of freedom of choice...and action. Lila frames the gang-leader, George Watson, and Hattie's big-city vigilantes kidnap him, and extract the information that the town-mayor, Johnny "J.J." Jones, is the brains behind the protection-gang and is getting the big cut of the money. But Hattie still has to rob a bank before she can secure the evidence needed to convict the mayor. All in a day's work for a crusading society dame.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: dowager, son, daughter-in-law, racketeer, thief, hilarious, patriotic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A crusading district attorney, Robert Larrimore, butts heads in court with defense attorney Paula Rogers.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: lawyer, prosecutor, racketeer, journalist, district attorney, assistant, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A two-bit criminal (Sean Penn) meets an attractive woman (Jennifer Lopez) and her spouse (Nick Nolte), each of whom wants him to murder the other.
Plot Keywords: racketeer, love interest, sexy woman, husband, murderer, engaging, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tony Rome (Frank Sinatra) is a Miami based detective who while diving in the ocean finds the body of a young woman. He is hired by Waldo Gronsky (Dan Blocker) to find her killer. Tony has to sift through a stack of suspects, plus trying to elude the Police.—Kelly
Plot Keywords: detective, tough guy, party girl, racketeer, artist, gritty, intricate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Brett runs a protection racket for an unknown boss. When Jeff Hayes arrives and opens a gambling den, they try to shut him down. Unlike the others who have given in, he plans to fight back.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: gambler, racketeer, boss, rancher, friend, sister, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
Plot Keywords: father, racketeer, nanny, daughter, prison official, criminal, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Near the end of the war in Germany, GI Steve Boland, a self-described "sharp-operator", meets a German girl, Ilsa, and they fall in love. Ilsa's brother Karl, whom she has not seen in three years, and his fellow-Nazi Ludwig visit Ilsa. Karl proudly informs her that he and Ludwig are "Werewolves", a group of Nazi assassins parachuted behind Allied lines for the purpose of killing Allied High Command officers. She and Steve go to Army Intelligence with their information, where Steve is immediately arrested for being A.W.O.L. Captain Melton of Army G-2 intervenes on Steve's behalf, as G-2 has had a suspicion about the existence of the "Werewolves" but no concrete info before now.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: racketeer, nazi, hero, suspenseful, hell, war zone, hiding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Midwestern police captain (Robert Mitchum) thwarts a crime boss (Robert Ryan) and city officials on the eve of a big election.
Plot Keywords: attorney, mobster, cop, brother, witness, racketeer, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An ex-racketeer's (Wendell Corey) abandoned wife (Evelyn Keyes) finds him in Honolulu, trying to beat a bum murder rap.
Plot Keywords: widow, racketeer, girlfriend, gangsters, brash, thrilling, gritty ...
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