The Racket

The Racket (1951)

  • 42% of users liked it
    (787 ratings)

The Racket was based on a play by Bartlett Cormack, first filmed as a silent in 1928. The storyline was updated to include references to Estes Kefauver's Senate Crime Investigating Committee: otherwise, the plot (and much of the dialogue) was lifted bodily from the Cormack play. Racketeer Robert… More

R, 1 hr. 28 min.
Directed By
John Cromwell, Nicholas Ray
Written By
William Wister Haines, W.R. Burnett
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense, Classics
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1951 Wide
On DVD
Apr 25, 1990

Critic Reviews

  • Bosley Crowther, New York Times

    As for the film's observations on crooks and poltics, they are so generalized and familiar that this is just a case of one more time around.

  • , TV Guide's Movie Guide

    [A] hard-hitting melodrama.

  • , Time Out

    Softer than it should have been, then, but still dark enough to lose yourself in.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    A typical gangster film.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • AJ V


    I can't remember this movie very well, it didn't make a big impression on me, it's another cop drama. It's okay, not bad, but not good either.

  • Ken S


    Ryan and Mitchum are pretty good as rivals in this cops and gangster film, but the dialog is really the star here

  • Michael G


    This movie kicks ass even though the leading lady has a more masculine voice than Will Arnet.

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