The Racketeer
AKA Love’s Conquest in the United Kingdom
(1929) American
B&W : [?] Six? reels / 5119 feet
Directed by Howard Higgin

Cast: Robert Armstrong [Mahlon Keene], Carol Lombard (Carole Lombard) [Rhoda Philbrooke], Roland Drew [Tony Vaughan], Jeanette Loff [Millie Chapman], John Loder [Jack Oakhurst], Paul Hurst [Mehaffy], Winter Hall [Mr. Simpson], Winifred Harris [Mrs. Simpson], Kit Guard [Gus], Al Hill [‘Squid’], Bobby Dunn [‘The Rat’], Hedda Hopper [Karen Lee], Budd Fine [Bernie Weber]

Distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. / Associate producer Ralph Block. Screenplay by Paul Gangelin with dialog by A.A. Kline, from a story by Paul Gangelin. Art director Edward Jewell. Set design by T.E. Dickson. Costume design by Gwen Wakeling. Dialog director Rollo Lloyd. Assistant director George Webster. Cinematography by David Abel. Sound by D.A. Cutler and Clarence M. Wickes. Edited by Doane Harrison. / Released 9 November 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The film was banned by the British Board of Film Censors in 1929. / Full-sound film.

Drama: Crime.

Survival Status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].

Keywords: Alcohol: Alcoholics - Criminals: Gangs, Gangsters - Death - Musicians - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 19 November 2007.

References: Parish-Gangster pp. 328, 329; Robertson-British p. 186 : Variety-19291106 p. 26 : Website-IMDb.

Home Video: DVD.