The Third Man (1949), The Roaring Twenties (1939), Fury (1936), The Public Enemy (1931), Force of Evil (1948), I Became a Criminal (1947), Brother Orchid (1940), The Mayor of Hell (1933) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Racketeer movies.
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: based on novel, new york city, pier, politician, politics, retribution, seduction ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Prominent attorney Brad Mason takes on the defense of Rudi Walchek, a young hit-man hoodlum accused of murder. Convinced of the youthful thug's innocence, Mason get him acquitted. Later, he learns from the murder-victim's father that Walchek is a low-level member of a protection-racket gang and was undoubtedly guilty. Mason is anxious to get the gang-leader, but when he discovers it is the eminently respected head of the city's Crime Commission, he feels that a conviction in a court-of-law would be impossible. In a rage, he kills the man, but all evidence, including the murder weapon points to Walchek. When the latter is again brought to trial, Mason, although he senses a higher justice is at work, feels he must defend him with the best of his ability.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: courtroom, gunman, held at gunpoint, hired gun, hitman, informant, intrigue ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Newly inaugurated President Judson Hammond is content to live out the next four years exercising a hands-off approach and leaving the problems of Depression America to local authorities. But after a miraculous recovery from an auto accident, Hammond is ready to take on every social ill and neither Congress, gangsters nor the nations of the world will stop him.—Erik Gregersen <erik@astro.as.utexas.edu>
Plot Keywords: bribery, hunger, yacht, dictator, prohibition, firing squad, organized crime ...
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: character name in title, gunman, held at gunpoint, henchman, hoodlum, informant, intimidation ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: independent film, gunfire, new york city, cigarette smoking, violence, trapped, reprisal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Marcia Cameron (Mae Clark), a gangster's moll, quits her racketeering boyfriend Dapper Dan Tyler (Robert Ellis) for a respectable rich man, Bob Henderson (Jmaes Hall), but after giving birth to a child), then finds her shady background a liability. Bob is so embarrassed by her former associations that he sues for a divorce. But Dapper Dan is gunned down by a detective and picky Bob forgives all.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: b movie, stock footage, cigarette smoking, violence, grief, shame, fear ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Valued thoroughbred mare Southern Queen slips and falls in a mud puddle, breaking her leg. Before she is destroyed, she gives birth to Tommy Boy, who becomes the favorite of his owner, horse breeder Jim Rellence. Ultimately a reluctant Rellence is forced to sell the one-year old to a prominent sportsman, and Tommy enters the world of high stakes racing. He goes through a variety of owners, all of whom have their own selfish agenda for the horse. Ultimately he ends up with Ruby, the mistress of a murdered racketeer, who wants Tommy to fulfill his true potential as a stakes horse and enters him in the Kentucky Derby.—duke1029@aol.com
Plot Keywords: irish american, wager, regeneration, male female relationship, rainstorm, jockey, horse racing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A reformed forger runs into an acquaintance from his past, now an escaped murderer, who blackmails him into resuming his criminal career.
Plot Keywords: blackmail, forgery, counterfeit money, hostage, father daughter relationship, racketeer, mansion ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative.
Plot Keywords: independent film, navy, new york city, pier, poverty, racketeer, skyline ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Julie Bronson (Jean Parker), whose father, "Pop" Bronson (Emmett Lynn) operates a desert café, is attracting the unwanted attention of a half-crazed gangster known as The Ghost (Ricardo Cortez) who runs a desert night club several miles away. The Ghost knows that "Pop" Bronson is an escaped convict and blackmails him into using his desert shack as a warehouse for "hot" stolen rubber tires to be sold on the Black Market. In an effort to save her father, Julie sends her sweetheart, Bob Lord (William Marshall) an army lieutenant stationed at a nearby desert camp, away. A rival gang, led by Kohler (Frank Hagney), wrecks the crime czar's "pleasure of palace" and gives him a beating. The Ghost, believing Pop Bronson responsible, goes to his desert café and brutally shoots him before the horrified eyes of Julie.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: escaped convict, extortion, military police, murder, racketeer, world war two, father daughter relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: King of Crime is about Marcus King, an old school gangster, a crime lord, who has left behind old school crime. He has manoeuvred his business into the leafy lanes of the suburbs and now, in place of pimps and dealers, his team consists of the best graduate geeks that money can bribe. No brothels, no casinos and no drugs - he's dragged serious, organised crime well and truly into the twenty-first century. From credit card cloning and skimming to Internet spamming and scamming, he is the king of Cyber Land.—Linda Dunscombe
Plot Keywords: shot in the leg, fetish, bisexual, suicide bomber, fraud, mercedes, audi ...
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