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Rackety Rax(1932)
Status: Released
Date: 1932-10-23
50%
1 Votes
Time: 1h 10m
A cock-eyed college...the gas-house gang and night-club gals as stewdents...with bums on the campus and the campus on the bum.
Overview:
Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual Rose Bowl football game, and decides this is one sweet proposition and could be even sweeter if one had his own college and football game and had a large say beforehand as to the outcome of any game this team had. So he ups and creates his own college---Carnasie after his own neighborhood. His gangster rival. Gilatti, thinks this give McGloin a definite inside advantage and, if there is one thing a gambler can't abide, it is that someone has an inside advantage and they are not that someone. Gilatti gets himself a college football team. Education marches on.
Languages: English.
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United States of America
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Movie: Rackety Rax
Top 10 Billed Cast
Victor McLaglen
'Knucks' McGloin
Greta Nissen
Voine
Nell O'Day
Doris
Alan Dinehart
Counsellor Sultsfeldt
Stanley Fields
Gilatti
Marjorie Beebe
Mrs. McGloin
Vince Barnett
'Dutch'
Ward Bond
'Brick' Gilligan
Allen Jenkins
Mike Dumphy
Esther Howard
'Sister' Carrie
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Overview
Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual Rose Bowl football game, and decides this is one sweet proposition and could be even sweeter if one had his own college and football game and had a large say beforehand as to the outcome of any game this team had. So he ups and creates his own college---Carnasie after his own neighborhood. His gangster rival. Gilatti, thinks this give McGloin a definite inside advantage and, if there is one thing a gambler can't abide, it is that someone has an inside advantage and they are not that someone. Gilatti gets himself a college football team. Education marches on.
Release Date
1932-10-23
Average
5
Rating:
2.5 startsTagline
A cock-eyed college...the gas-house gang and night-club gals as stewdents...with bums on the campus and the campus on the bum.
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