Movie: Madame Racketeer

Top 10 Billed Cast

Alison Skipworth
Alison Skipworth

Countess von Claudwig / Martha Hicks

Richard Bennett
Richard Bennett

Elmer Hicks

George Raft
George Raft

Jack Houston

John Breeden
John Breeden

David Butterworth

Evalyn Knapp
Evalyn Knapp

Alice Hicks

Gertrude Messinger
Gertrude Messinger

Patsy Hicks

Robert McWade
Robert McWade

James Butterworth

J. Farrell MacDonald
J. Farrell MacDonald

John Adams

Oscar Apfel
Oscar Apfel

J. Harrington Hagney

Jessie Arnold
Jessie Arnold

Frankie

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    International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.

  • Release Date

    1932-07-23

  • Average

    4.8

  • Rating:

    2.4 starts
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    English
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