Parole Racket (1937)
At Last The Screen Dares To Blast America's Newest Menace Wide Open!
62 min
Following a long investigation, Police Detective-Lieutenant Anthony "Tony" Roberts becomes convinced that there is some powerful unknown-master-mind leader behind the gangs of crooks who are terrorizing the city, and it has something to do with paroled convicts. He sets up a scheme with his supervisor to have himself shamed by being demoted to a patrolman and then caught in the act of receiving bribe-money from a racketeer. He is convicted and sent to prison, and the manner in which his parole is arranged leads him, dangerously, to the secret-head of the gang.
- Release date
- March 11, 1937
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Paul Kelly as Police Lieutenant Tony Roberts
- Rosalind Keith as Betty Wilson
- Thurston Hall as Jameson
- Leona Maricle as Anna Gregg
- Gene Morgan as Mike 'Punchy' Woresky
- John Graham Spacey as Tim Delevan
- Francis McDonald as Nat Beldon
- Raymond Brown as Captain McArthur
- Jack Daley as Sergeant O'Leary
- C. Montague Shaw as Judge Grayson
Crew
- Charles C. Coleman · Director
- Harold Shumate · Writer
- Owen Francis · Writer
- Wallace MacDonald · Producer
- George Meehan · Cinematographer
- Richard Fantl · Editor